Efe Yüksel (1999) is a composer, performer and electronic musician from İzmir/Turkey, currently based in London, undertaking doctoral research in the Guildhall School of Music, supervised by Julian Anderson and Aaron Einbond.

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His music has been played by ensembles such as the Ligeti and Bozzini Quartets, EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble, Line-upon-Line Percussion Trio, Plus-Minus Ensemble, Cello Octet Amsterdam, Guildhall Sessions Orchestra, pianists Ben Smith and Huw Watkins, violinists Mira Benjamin and Mark Fewer, flutist Cem Önertürk, saxophonist Lydia Kenny and glissator player Etienne Rolin, in venues across the UK, US, France and Turkey. He has previously taken part in the Dartington Summer Course, Peter Reynolds Composition Studio (as part of the Vale of Glamorgan Festival), The Cumnock Tryst Course and İzmir New Music Days.

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In recent years, his practice has involved exploring the capabilities of instruments and voices with hands-on experimentation via close collaboration with performers as well as combining them with live electronic processing. Noise and extended techniques have a significant place in his practice and doctoral research, titled “Structural Organisation of Inharmonic Sonorities”, which attempts to formulate a theory of how to think about form without relying on the organisation of pitches and metric rhythms, particularly when working with inharmonic and noisy sounds. The majority of his music for voice deals with inharmonic vocal multiphonics.

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Aside from composing, he is also active as a live electronics, melodica and vocal performer (and occasional pianist).  Since 2022, he has organised a multitude of events for melodicas and electronics that commissioned and premiered new works by himself and a wide range of composers including Malcolm Singer, Amber Priestley and other fellow student composers.  He frequently collaborates with video game designers and choreographers.

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​He is supported by the Guildhall School Trust, Talent Unlimited and Dr. Nejat F. Eczacıbaşı Foundation and was the recipient of the Ian Horsbrugh Memorial Prize for Composition in 2022.