Peyman Farzinpour, Music Director

Peyman Farzinpour
Music Director and Conductor
Waltham Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor and composer, Peyman Farzinpour is the Music Director and Conductor of the Waltham Philharmonic Orchestra and the Music Director at Concord Academy where he conducts the orchestra and the Contemporary Music Ensemble and also teaches composition. Prior to his posts as CA and the WPO, he served as the Director of New Music Programs for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art where he was responsible for creating highly innovative and adventurous music programming which was awarded first place by ASCAP/Chamber Music America for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music for the 2006/7 season. While pushing the musical envelope in the music scene in L.A., Peyman’s programs also attracted substantial audiences for the museum’s new music series. Prior to his position at LACMA, Peyman was Artistic Director and conductor of Erato Philharmonia, an orchestra dedicated to performing standard repertoire alongside 20th century and contemporary, avant-garde music, all in conjunction with multimedia. An ardent proponent of music of all epochs, Peyman has conducted music from the Baroque to contemporary periods with orchestras and ensembles in North America and Europe such as the Congress Orchestra of Saint Petersburg, the New Symphony and the Pleven Philharmonic in Bulgaria, the Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic in the Czech Republic, the Orchestra of the Sessione Senese per la Musica e l'Arte in Italy, the Banff Chamber Orchestra in Canada, the St. Matthews Chamber Orchestra in Los Angeles, the U. C. Davis Symphony and Chorus, and one of Italy’s foremost new music groups, the Divertimento Ensemble.

Equally active as a composer, Peyman’s works have been performed throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe by groups such as the Janus Ensemble, the June in Buffalo Chamber Orchestra, the St. Matthews Chamber Orchestra, the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, the Verdi String Quartet, the Empyrean Ensemble, and by pianist Leonard Stein in the Piano Spheres series. He has been composer in residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts and is a recipient of the Subito Grant from the American Composers Forum.

Peyman has also served as a lecturer and pre-concert speaker and interviewer for the Pasadena Symphony, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, where he was the Manager of the Education and Community Programs. He has also led a seminar series on classical music at the Lee Strasberg Institute in Los Angeles.

Peyman holds a B.M. in classical guitar performance from the Peabody Conservatory, a B.A. in English Literature from the Johns Hopkins University, and a M.A. in composition from U.C. Davis. He did post-graduate studies in Italy, where he studied conducting with Emilio Pomarico and Sandro Gorli, and composition with Giacomo Manzoni. He has also studied conducting with Gustav Meier at the International Conductors Workshop.