She studied composition with Andy Vores, Robert Saxton and John Woolrich and attended masterclasses with Peter Maxwell Davies.
[1] As a classically trained mezzo-soprano she has worked and performed the music of Georges Aperghis, Helmut Oehring, Frédéric Acquaviva, György Ligeti, Phill Niblock, Pauline Oliveros, Earle Brown, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Harrison Birtwistle, Beat Furrer, Maurice Lemaître, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Jocelyn Pook, Peter Maxwell Davies, György Kurtág, Denis Dufour, Bernard Heidsieck and Trevor Wishart as well as interpreted the works of Luciano Berio, Isidore Isou, Nam June Paik, Gil J. Wolman, Luigi Nono, Salvatore Sciarrino, Conlon Nancarrow, Cathy Berberian and John Cage, whose "Aria" she was the first to perform in Bayreuth and also to record the complete Song Books for the CD label Sub Rosa in 2012.
[2] Lixenberg gave over 1000 performances all around the globe, from The Royal Opera, Covent Garden, to the most underground venues and has performed with ensembles such as Ensemble InterContemporain, Wien Modern, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, Tokyo Philharmonic, Suntory Hall, Tokyo.
She was active in the 1990s as a singer, actor, writer and comedian with Simon Munnery and Stewart Lee's Cluub Zarathustra and contributed to the BBC2 series Attention Scum.
[5] In the 2019 United Kingdom general election she stood as an independent candidate in Hackney North and Stoke Newington, finishing last with 76 votes (0.1%).