About Parham Behzad

Parham Behzad is a composer whose work treats musical entities as non-hierarchical systems capable of evolving, interacting, and reorganizing themselves. Rather than imposing form as a fixed structure, he composes conditions in which form emerges—or fails—through systemic agency, participation, circulation, and reuse. Grounded in an ecological understanding of composition, his practice approaches technology not as a tool but as an environment that conditions interaction and mediation. Individual and collective agencies remain in continuous negotiation, allowing musical processes to unfold through interaction rather than centralized control. Within this framework, aesthetics function as an interface rather than an object, framing situations in which transformation, breakdown, and reconfiguration become structurally audible. His works have been performed internationally in Germany, Austria, Spain, Hungary, and Iran, including at Aspekte Festival, LIMINA Festival, UpToThree Festival, the International Tehran Contemporary Music Festival, and the Budapest Music Center – Sound Dome. His music has been realized by Ensemble Mosaik, PHACE, NAMES Ensemble, Schallfeld Ensemble, LUX:NM Ensemble, ARCO Ensemble, and KlavierDuo Esther & Ernst. He is currently pursuing his Master’s degree at Mozarteum Universität Salzburg with Laure M. Hiendl. He previously studied composition with Stephan Winkler, Arnulf Herrmann, and Gilbert Nono at the Barenboim-Said Akademie. He has participated in master classes with Rebecca Saunders, Olga Neuwirth, Lisa Streich, Chaya Czernowin, George Friedrich Haas, and Gordon Kampe.