Elizabeth Faw Hayden Pizer (born 1 September 1954) is an American composer, music journalist, archivist and broadcast producer. She was born in Watertown

Watertown

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, New York

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, and studied at the Boston Conservatory of Music in Boston

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, Massachusetts

Massachusetts

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. 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 (or string quartet) (1977/79)
• Fanfare Overture for symphonic band (1977/79)
• Look Down, Fair Moon for voice & piano (1976)
• Quilisoly for flute & piano, or violin & piano (1976)
• String Quartet (1981)
• Five Haiku for soprano & chamber ensemble (or soprano & piano reduction) (1978)
• Five Haiku, II for mezzo-soprano & piano (1979)
• Ten Haiku for saxophone & piano (1978/79; arr. 1983)
• Nightsongs for medium voice & piano (texts by Milton Drake) (1986)
• Shakespeare Set for unaccompanied voice (1978–87)
• Sunken Flutes (electronic tape) (1979)
• Arlington (electronic tape) (1989)
• Embryonic Climactus (electronic tape) (1989)
• The Infinite Sea for electronic tape, or electronic tape & narrator (1990)
• Aquasphere (electronic tape) (1990)

Her work has been recorded and issued on CD, including:

• Romantics: American Piano Music (1992) North/South Recordings
• Desertscapes -- Music of American Women Composer (1997) MMC Recordings
• New American Piano Music (2001) Innova Recordings

Pizer has published books including:

• Music of the Ancient Near East (New York, 1954)