About Us
Founded by Tengku Irfan, Ensemble Fantasque is a group of musicians in New York
committed to performing 20th and 21st century music and underperformed works of earlier centuries. We aim to demystify complex and challenging works to our audiences and make the concert experience a memorable one.
• The main goal of our Ensemble is to unearth/recover hidden treasures of our music heritage by promoting underperformed but great quality works by composers throughout history.
• Some of these works fall into obscurity because they may not be easily
comprehensible, performed, or have had an unfortunate history of compromised premieres.
• We seek to demystify and deconstruct these works by presenting them to audiences in approachable and engaging ways.
Vision and Mission Statement
Founder and Music Director
Malaysian-born Tengku Irfan has appeared around the world as a conductor, pianist, and composer. He made his Carnegie Hall debut conducting the Juilliard Orchestra in April 2024, and has appeared in different concert halls around the world. In his earlier years as a pianist, he has performed with orchestras such as Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, among others. His compositions have also been premiered by orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, and also won three ASCAP Morton Gould Awards as a composer. As the founder and music director of his own group, Ensemble Fantasque, he aims to promote challenging and complex music, and sharing the visceral emotions that these works have to all kinds of audiences.