Efe Yüksel (1999) is a composer, performer and electronic musician from İzmir/Turkey, currently based in London. 

 

His music has been played by Ligeti Quartet, Quatuor Bozzini, EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble, Line-upon-Line Percussion Trio, Lakeside Brass Quintet, Guildhall Sessions Orchestra, conductors Jack Sheen and William Cole, pianists Ben Smith and Huw Watkins, violinists Mira Benjamin and Mark Fewer, flutist Cem Önertürk and clarinetist Heather Roche in venues such as the Courtald Gallery, St. Mary-at-Hill, the Barbican Centre, IKLEKTIK, L'Impromptu (Bordeaux), National Opera Centre (New York), Susesi Resort (Antalya), The Place (London Contemporary Dance School), St. Marylebone Parish Church, Dartington Hall and Milton Court Concert Hall.

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In recent years, his practice has involved exploring the capabilities of instruments and voices with hands-on experimentation and close collaboration with performers as well as combining them with live electronic processing. A certain sense of playfulness haunts his work, whether be it in the form of filling bass clarinets with water, making singers inhale helium or writing pieces involving balloons and bottles. 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 Amber Priestley, Etienne Rolin and other fellow students from London music schools.   

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He completed studies with Malcolm Singer (composition) and Nye Parry (electronic music) in the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he earned a BMus (hons) and is currently studying for his master's degree in the same institution with Malcolm Singer and Julian Anderson.

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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.