About Peyman Farzinpour
Peter Peyman Farzinpour is an American conductor, composer, and multimedia producer based in Los Angeles, California. He is the Artistic Director and Conductor of ENSEMBLE / PARALLAX and Sinfonietta Notturna. He also serves as Executive and Artistic Director of Farzinpour Creative Music & Multimedia Ventures.
Farzinpour began his professional career with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, where he worked as Manager of Education and Community Programs. He later became Director of New Music Programs at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. His programming there received First Prize from ASCAP and Chamber Music America for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music.
He has held conducting posts with Erato Philharmonia in Los Angeles, the Waltham Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Rivers Symphony Orchestra in Massachusetts. He served as Conductor in Residence with Opera Cabal and led the world staged U.S. premiere of Georg Friedrich Haas’s opera ATTHIS at The Kitchen in New York City.
As an educator, Farzinpour held faculty positions at Berklee College of Music and the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He taught conducting, composition, music theory, and music history, including courses on rock and roll.
Farzinpour studied at the Peabody Conservatory, The Johns Hopkins University, and the University of California, Davis. He earned a Doctor of Musical Arts in orchestral conducting from the Civica Scuola di Musica Claudio Abbado in Milan. His compositions are published and distributed by the American Composers Alliance.
Career Background
Sinfonietta Notturna
Farzinpour Creative Music & Multimedia Ventures
ENSEMBLE / PARALLAX
Berklee College of Music
Opera Cabal
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Concord Academy
Waltham Philharmonic Orchestra
Education
The Johns Hopkins University
Peabody Conservatory of Music
University of California, Davis
Civica Scuola di Musica Claudio Abbado
Media
Press
Peyman Farzinpour has built a career by refusing to choose just one lane. Conductor. Composer. Multimedia producer. Professor. Arts entrepreneur. Each role connects to a single idea that has guided his work for decades: music should evolve with the world around it.
National conversations about arts access often focus on big-picture funding and policy debates. But for Peter Peyman Farzinpour, the issue is grounded in everyday experience. As a conductor, composer, educator, and arts leader with deep professional roots in Los Angeles, he has seen how access to the arts directly affects individuals and communities across the region.
Internationally active conductor, composer, and multimedia innovator Peyman Farzinpour is raising awareness around the urgent need for the performing arts to evolve in how music is created, taught, and experienced.
Awards & Recognition
- First Prize for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music – ASCAP / Chamber Music America
- Berklee Faculty Fellowship – Berklee College of Music
- Artists Grant (Three Consecutive Years) – Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (RISCA)
- Fellowship Merit Award in Music Composition – Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (RISCA)
- Multiple Grants – Foundation for Contemporary Arts
- Grants – American Composers Forum
- Faculty Development and Recording Grants – Berklee College of Music
- Composer in Residence – Banff Centre for the Arts
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