Arthur William Phoenix Young Jeffes is an English composer, musician and arctic explorer.
Background
He is the frontman of the musical group a group which he formed in 2007 to play the music of his father"s band Orchestra, and he is one half of the band Sundog. Jeffes was born in London to the artist Emily Young and musician and composer, Simon Jeffes. Jeffes"s interest in experimental music was recognised by his father when he took a hammer to the keys of his father"s piano.
Career
He read Archaeology and Anthropology at Trinity College, Cambridge. Encouraged by the public response to the Union Chaoel concerts, which all sold out, Jeffes decided that keeping his father"s music alive was a worthwhile endeavour. He founded a new band,, with a new line-up, including Cass Browne of Gorillaz, Neil Codling of Suede, Oli Langford of Florence and the Machine and Darren Berry of Razorlight. have performed on stage playing works of Simon Jeffes and their own pieces.
They have released two albums, (2008) and
In 2012, Jeffes was commissioned by the artist Nelly Ben-Hayoun to write several pieces for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Kepler Project to be played by the International Space Orchestra. The pieces "1420" and "Aurora" were beamed into Space in 2013.
"1420" was inspired by the WOW! signal.
Membership
In 2007, original members of Orchestra performed a series of three memorial concerts, with Arthur Jeffes performing onstage with the band for the first time, to mark ten years since Simon Jeffes" death.