ENSEMBLE / PARALLAX
CONTEMPORARY MUSIC & MULTIMEDIA ENSEMBLE
PETER PEYMAN FARZINPOUR, DIRECTOR
      
Based in Los Angeles, ENSEMBLE / PARALLAX, led by Artistic Director and Conductor Peter Peyman Farzinpour, was awarded "Ensemble of the Year" in Rhode Island in its inaugural season in 2015. Almost a decade later, it still maintains its initial goal of functioning as a new music and multimedia consort based that performs 20th century masterworks alongside 21st century, avant-garde music in the European aesthetic ranging from composers such as Schoenberg, Dallapiccola, and Boulez to Hosokawa, Haas, Francesconi, Nono, Sciarrino, Berio, Grisey, Furrer, Feldman, Vanoni, Ortiz, Manzoni, and its Artistic Director, Farzinpour, alongside multimedia and video art in collaboration with award-winning artists from around the world. In only nine seasons, E/P has commissioned and premiered over a two-dozen compositions and multimedia pieces, as well as numerous U.S. and regional premieres of compositions. Moreover, E/P is the only ensemble in the world that commissions and performs a new multimedia work alongside every single piece of music it performs!