Elizabeth Hayden Pizer
Elizabeth Faw Hayden Pizer is an American composer, music journalist, archivist and broadcast producer. She was born in Watertown, New York, and studied at the Boston Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. Hayden married musician and composer Charles Pizer. She was awarded the First Prize in the 1982 Delius Composition Contest.
Works
Selected works include:Elegy for Strings for string orchestra Fanfare Overture for symphonic band Look Down, Fair Moon for voice & piano Quilisoly for flute & piano, or violin & piano String Quartet Five Haiku for soprano & chamber ensemble Five Haiku, II for mezzo-soprano & piano Ten Haiku for saxophone & piano Nightsongs for medium voice & piano Shakespeare Set for unaccompanied voice Sunken Flutes Arlington Embryonic Climactus The Infinite Sea for electronic tape, or electronic tape & narrator AquasphereHer work has been recorded and issued on CD, including:Romantics: American Piano Music North/South RecordingsDesertscapes -- Music of American Women Composer MMC RecordingsNew American Piano Music Innova Recordings
Pizer has published books including:
- ''Music of the Ancient Near East''