Elizabeth Parker is a British film and television composer who worked at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop   from 1978 until the workshop's closure in 1996.  Classically trained in cello and piano, she graduated from the University of East Anglia with a degree in Music in 1973 and became UEA’s first recipient of a Masters degree in Electronic music in 1974. Her graduation piece was a Hilaire Belloc poem based purely on vocal sounds cut up using a reel-to-reel tape recorder, now sadly lost. She was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Staffordshire University.