Estelle Pizer is a Melbourne-based composer and creative artist. She completed a Bachelor of Music (Hons) and a Master of Music in composition at the University of Melbourne, studying with Moya Henderson, Julian Yu, Brenton Broadstock and Stuart Greenbaum, and held an Australian Postgraduate Award. Her catalogue centres on opera, ballet and chamber music, including the prize-winning one-act opera ‘The Blackened Pearl’, the youth opera ‘orb.IT’, ‘Perverse’, and the cello work ‘Wish’, held by the Australian Music Centre and published by Keys Press. She also scored short films such as the award-winning ‘Name Day’, and undertook orchestral and music-preparation work for film and television, notably alongside Paul Grabowsky. In recent years Pizer has broadened into a multidisciplinary practice spanning writing, photography and music, presented through her site estellepizer.com.