Arthur Jeffes
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 Penguin Cafe performing in 2011 | |
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| Born | Arthur William Phoenix Young Jeffes 21 July 1978 Paddington, London, England |
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| Member of | Penguin Cafe |
Arthur William Phoenix Young Jeffes (born 21 July 1978) is an English composer, musician, and arctic explorer.[1] He is the frontman of the musical group Penguin Cafe, which he formed in 2007 to play the music of his father's band, the Penguin Cafe Orchestra.
Early life
[edit]Jeffes was born in London to the artist Emily Young and musician and composer Simon Jeffes. His interest in experimental music was recognised by his father when he took a hammer to the keys of a piano.[2] He studied archaeology and anthropology at Trinity College, Cambridge.[3][better source needed]
Penguin Cafe
[edit]In 2007, original members of Penguin Cafe Orchestra played a series of three memorial concerts, with Jeffes performing onstage with the band for the first time,[4] to mark ten years since Simon Jeffes' death.[5] Encouraged by the public response to the concerts, which all sold out, Jeffes decided that keeping his father's music alive was a worthwhile endeavour. He founded a new band, Penguin Cafe, with a lineup including Cass Browne, Neil Codling of Suede, Oli Langford, and Darren Berry.[6] The band plays both music by Simon Jeffes and their own compositions.[7][8]
International Space Orchestra
[edit]In 2012, Jeffes was commissioned by the artist Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian to write several pieces for the NASA Kepler space telescope mission, to be played by the International Space Orchestra.[9][10] The pieces "1420" and "Aurora" were beamed into space in 2013. "1420" was inspired by the WOW! signal.[citation needed]
Other work
[edit]Jeffes has also recorded music with pianist Mark Springer under the name Aparat.[11]
Discography
[edit]Penguin Cafe
- A Matter of Life... (2011)
- The Red Book (2014)
- The Imperfect Sea (2017)
- Handfuls of Night (2019)
- Rain Before Seven... (2023)
Aparat
- Aparat (2016)
References
[edit]- ↑ "Blizzard: Race to the Pole". BBC. 25 July 2006.
- ↑ "A voyage round my father's orchestra". The Guardian. 12 June 2009.
- ↑ "Arthur Jeffes (I)". IMDb.com. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
- ↑ Walters, John (13 December 2007). "Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Union Chapel, London". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 June 2014.
- ↑ "Obituary: Simon Jeffes". The Independent. 18 December 1997.
- ↑ "Penguin Cafe". Penguin Cafe. Retrieved 23 June 2014.
- ↑ "Gig review: Penguin Café and Portico Quartet". The Scotsman. Retrieved 26 February 2011.
- ↑ "Penguin legend lives on". Basingstoke Gazette. 31 January 2011. Retrieved 26 February 2011.
- ↑ Your Name Here. "Ground Control". Groundcontrol-opera.com. Archived from the original on 17 May 2014. Retrieved 23 June 2014.
- ↑ Nelly Ben Hayoun (6 September 2012). "The International Space Orchestra – Nelly Ben Hayoun". Nellyben.com. Retrieved 23 June 2014.
- ↑ "Aparat". discogs.com. Retrieved 19 March 2026.
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