Lizzie created and founded Classical Kicks Productions in 2012 in an ongoing mission is to bring classical music to a wider audience in a relaxed context. The Classical Kicks residency in the upstairs venue at Ronnie Scott’s, has included everything from string quartets to beat boxing flute players and female rappers, and has also given performances in festivals, schools and churches from a newly commissioned young-persons show to a electronic music meets classical instruments collaboration with Bestival Founder Rob da Bank: all presented with a classical twist. Read more about the Rob da Bank collaboration here
In November 2019 Lizzie curated and performed a headline event at Ronnie Scott’s Main House with internationally acclaimed The Sixteen and Harry Christophers, pianist (and Artistic Director of Ronnie Scott’s) James Pearson, accordionist Martynas Levickis , and rapper Isatta Sheriff Read 5 star review here
Lizzie’s Classical Kicks Productions have recently extended to innovative performances that deliver immersive audio-visual impact. Her co-production with Emily Blacksell Corrido: A Ballad for the Brave is an audiovisual storytelling of Frida Kahlo’s life and times with original animated film/artwork/design and video. This premiered to great acclaim alongside the V and A’s ‘Making Herself Up’ Frida exhibition in 2018.
Another recent production is a reframing of Schoenberg’s classical masterpiece, Verklarte Nacht, in collaboration with artist Joseph Fairweather-Hole, and Lithuanian chamber orchestra ‘Mikroorkestra’. Joseph created 2 animated films which unfold in real time in response to the pieces emotional narrative of love, loss, and shame, and projection was done by immersing the orchestra inside the see through projection material in a darkly lit concert hall to create the fullest audience impact. Read more here
Her current chamber music production is a show she created called ‘The musical life and times of Chanel and Stravinsky’ with visual projections, featuring Serbian accordionist Milos Milivojevic . They premiered this to great success at the Music at Malling Festival in September 2019.
Following an incredible July including a concert in the Acropolis of Athens with the amazing band James, Lizzie is back this August with an array of solo and ensemble performances! See Live calendar for more info and to book 🙂
Lizzie is so excited to be just a week away from the premiere of her Classical Kicks co-production with The Sixteen. The performances are on October 29th and October 31st at Southwark and Rochester Cathedrals respectively. This beautiful project has been created to demonstrate the long lasting and dramatic effects of climate change and global warming. The concert will explore our relationship with the planet we live on. With an originally crafted video piece by videographer Heather Britton, and free improvisation from violinist Lizzie Ball, The Sixteen directed by Harry Christophers, will interweave a specially curated choral programme of powerful works by Padilla, Perotin and Sheppard.. TO BOOK visit https://thesixteen.com/event/all-the-ends-of-the-world-london/
Lizzie is delighted to announce her Autumn season of concerts which have a fantastic variety of programmes, collaborations and new projects including a co-production of a brand new show exploring the impact of climate change with The Sixteen and Harry Christophers. For more info visit the Live page, to book tickets and read more…… 
Watch Lizzie’s BRAND NEW showreel here Lizzie Ball NEW 2020 Showreel
During lockdown, like so many artists, Lizzie has lost a great proportion of her income for the foreseeable short-medium term future. Whilst she pivots to change and develop the way she works at home, Lizzie is so pleased and proud to be the recipient of grant funding from the Arts Council England Emergency Relief fund. This vital support enables her to continue her work as an independent artist during this temporary wipeout of all possible live performance revenue and she is extremely thankful.
Lizzie is DELIGHTED to announce the first Classical Kicks headline show in the downstairs venue of Ronnie Scott’s on Sunday November 24th 2019, collaborating with world renowned choir ‘The Sixteen’ and their acclaimed Founder/Director Harry Christophers CBE, together with her long time collaborators pianist and tour de force Artistic Director of Ronnie Scott’s James Pearson and accordion virtuoso Martynas Levickis.
Classical Kicks presents a unique journey from plainchant and medieval/renaissance song through to James Macmillan, Oscar Peterson and Brian Wilson and beyond. James Pearson, Lizzie Ball and Martynas Levickis collaborate with Harry Christophers and The Sixteen in a one off opportunity to hear one of the worlds greatest vocal ensembles up close and personal in one of the worlds greatest jazz venues
Sunday November 24th Ronnie Scotts Main House Doors 6 30…. TO BOOK please visit www.ronniescotts.co.uk
Lizzie has had a super busy September so far, performing with Classical Kicks Ensemble on tour aswell as their return gig at Ronnie Scotts, and performing two special chamber concerts for the Oxford Philharmonic and renowned chef Raymond Blanc, and guesting with the wonderful Orchestra of the Swan in Stratford-upon-Avon, as well as fitting quite a few hours the recording studio for some forthcoming projects…. She is currently working on a brand new show, a follow on from her show about Frida Kahlo. This time Lizzie will explore the life and times of Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky in a Musical Portrait of the two titans and their contemporaries, alongside virtuoso accordionist Milos Milivojevic.
‘A Musical Portrait of Chanel and Stravinsky’ premieres THIS Thursday September 19th at 7pm as part of the fantastic Music at Malling Festival (directed by Tom Kemp) in the glorious All Saints Church in Tudeley, Kent, which has original stained glass windows by Marc Chagall himself. for tickets and more info please visit http://musicatmalling.com/current-festivals/#tabs-5
Lizzie was delighted to make a welcome return to Ronnie Scott’s upstairs bar with her Classical Kicks night, last Sunday September 8th. The night was a complete sellout and featured the most stellar line up of artists and music. The night ended with an amazing bagpipe rendition of AC/DC’s Thunderstruck played by David Colvin, complete with CK band. Videos and photos coming soon! 
Photo by Silvia Cruz
Lizzie was delighted to be interviewed for Johnian Alumni Blog last week-this is the college that she attended at her time reading Music at Cambridge University. Read here for the full interview which included a career retrospective and details the joy of finding kindred spirits to collaborate with, referring to her recent partnership with Emily Blacksell, co-creator of their show Corrido: A Ballad for the Brave https://medium.com/@stjohnscamalumni/career-spotlight-lizzie-ball-d0bac591fb82
CORRIDO: A Ballad for the Brave, premiered on 2nd November to a sold out audience and standing ovation. Lizzie’s combined credits for the show as Lead Violinist, Vocalist, Composer, Co-Producer and Co-Creator set the scene for a tremendously bright and altogether fitting celebration for Mexico’s Day of the Dead Festival. The show was hosted exclusively by the museum as a part of the hugely successful Frida Kahlo: Making Herself Up exhibition, in which many of Frida‘s personal possessions left the shores of her beloved Mexico for the first time in 50 years.
Lizzie shared the stage with Polish accordionist Bartosz Glowacki, Chilean guitarist Jorge Bravo, Mexican guitarist Morgan Szymanski and award-winning, critically acclaimed Actress and Director, Eve Best.
CORRIDO: A Ballad for the Brave is an immersive concert which pays musical homage to artistic self-expression, amplifying female voices and honouring established heroines, including the life and works of Frida Kahlo. Drawing inspiration from the cultural landscape of her time, the concert carries an audience on an impressionistic audio-visual journey through exquisite music, original art and animation, and bold video design.
Behind-the-scenes the piece starred some of the entertainment industry’s most talented production team in Director, Co-Producer and Writer, Emily Blacksell (Old Vic), Animator and Art-Director, Coline Brun-Naujalis, Sound Designer, John Leonard and Video and Light Designer, Rod Machlachlan.
It’s no wonder that the show was welcomed with international press acclaim and riotous applause from as far away as Mexico itself where the show was celebrated as ‘a triumphant debut of a show honouring Mexico, Frida and other strong women of the age’.
For more information about the show and to download its Programme, visit the V&A website.
CORRIDO Animation by Coline Brun-Naujalis
