Peter Peyman Farzinpour is a highly distinguished, award-winning conductor, composer, multimedia artist, and professor whose work stands at the forefront of contemporary performance practice. Internationally recognized for his exceptional breadth of repertoire, he is equally authoritative in the standard classical canon and in award-winning contemporary and avant-garde music, frequently realized through ambitious, large-scale multimedia productions. He currently serves as Executive and Artistic Director and Conductor of ENSEMBLE / PARALLAX and Sinfonietta Notturna, and is the Director of Farzinpour Creative Music & Multimedia Ventures.

Farzinpour has conducted extensively in major concert halls throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe, with prominent engagements in France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Czechia, and Bulgaria. His conducting is noted for its clarity, precision, and expressive intensity, encompassing masterworks of the orchestral repertoire alongside complex contemporary scores and newly commissioned works.

Farzinpour served as Conductor in Residence with Opera Cabal, with whom he led the world staged premiere of Georg Friedrich Haas’s ATTHIS at The Kitchen in New York City—an internationally significant operatic event. The sold-out production was hailed by The New York Times as “mesmerizing,” and is widely regarded as a landmark achievement in contemporary opera performance.

Under Farzinpour’s visionary leadership, ENSEMBLE / PARALLAX has emerged as a pioneering force in multimedia performance, becoming the first ensemble to commission and present every musical work in tandem with a newly created visual media component conceived expressly for the composition and performance context. This groundbreaking model has positioned the ensemble as a benchmark for expanded concert formats internationally.

Farzinpour launched his professional career with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and later served as Director of New Music at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), where he curated exceptionally innovative concert series awarded First Prize from ASCAP/Chamber Music America for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music. He has held major music directorships with Erato Philharmonia (Los Angeles), the Rivers Symphony Orchestra, and the Waltham Philharmonic Orchestra.

His contemporary music leadership includes performances at premier institutions and venues such as Berklee College of Music, Tufts University, Miami University (Ohio), Eastern Connecticut State University, Rhode Island College, Syracuse University, National Sawdust (Brooklyn), the Conservatoire Maurice Ravel in Paris, and collaborations with Italy’s foremost new-music ensembles, Divertimento Ensemble and MDI Ensemble (Milan), in addition to major symphonic engagements across North America and Europe.

As a composer, Farzinpour’s works have been performed widely throughout North America and Europe by leading contemporary ensembles, including MDI, Cygnus, and Janus Ensembles, the June in Buffalo Chamber Orchestra, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, the Verdi String Quartet, the Empyrean Ensemble, and by pianist Leonard Stein in the Piano Spheres series. His music has been featured at major contemporary music festivals and institutions, including the Tufts University Festival of Contemporary Music and the Conservatoire Maurice Ravel, and extensively at Berklee College of Music.

A widely honored and award-winning artist, Farzinpour is the recipient of numerous prestigious distinctions, including the Berklee Faculty Fellowship, Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (RISCA) Artists Grants for three consecutive years, the RISCA Fellowship Merit Award in Music Composition, multiple grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and awards from the American Composers Forum. He was also selected as a Composer-in-Residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts.

An exceptionally respected educator, Farzinpour is an active professor who has held faculty positions at Berklee College of Music and UMass Dartmouth, teaching conducting, composition, music theory, music history, and popular music studies. He has also served as a distinguished lecturer and pre-concert speaker for the Pasadena Symphony and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, where he previously held a leadership role in education and community engagement.

Farzinpour holds a B.M. in Classical Guitar Performance from the Peabody Conservatory, a B.A. in English Literature from Johns Hopkins University, and an M.A. in Composition from UC Davis. He completed advanced postgraduate studies in orchestral conducting at the Civica Scuola di Musica “Claudio Abbado” in Milan, studying with Emilio Pomarico and Sandro Gorli, and composition with Giacomo Manzoni, and has also studied conducting with Gustav Meier at the International Conductors Workshop.