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Jeff Composing PicJeffrey Young is a composer and a violinist who performs classical, avant-garde, jazz, bluegrass, and rock music. A 2007 graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, he is trained as a classical violinist and composer.

Recent accomplishments include the premiere of Jeffrey's newest composition, Light Races, at the Darmstadt Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt, Germany. With the Oberlin Orchestra and the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble, he has performed in New York's Carnegie Hall and Merkin Hall and in Cleveland's Severance Hall, in concerts that included the world premiere performances of several works. He has also been a featured blues soloist with the National Repertory Orchestra. In addition, Jeffrey is a first place winner of the 2003 Berkshire Lyric Theatre's Emma Blafield Instrumental Award, and he has been elected into the National Music Honor Society, Pi Kappa Lambda.

Brooklyn, NY is Jeffrey's hometown and current residence. He performs at music venues throughout New York City, with around 100 appearances in the past year at venues such as The Highline Ballroom, B.B. King's, Music Hall of Williamsburg, Mercury Lounge, The Spiegeltent, Galapagos, The Bitter End, The Tank, and Rockwood Music Hall. He is also in demand as a recording artist, having been featured on albums of hip-hop, jazz, prog rock, kids songs, and more, as well as on The Rachael Ray Show.

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