Jeffrey Young is a composer and violinist from Brooklyn, NY who specializes in experimental classical music and rock music.

Jeffrey's recent accomplishments include a six-day tour of the Northeastern U.S. in December 2011 of new solo work for violin, voice, and live electronics, and a nine-day tour of the Northwestern U.S. in August 2011 of an experimental opera co-written with fellow thingNY member Paul Pinto. Jeffrey has worked with Pierre Boulez and other leaders of the European avant-garde including Kaija Saariaho, Georg Friedrich Haas, Marc-Andre Dalbavie and members of IRCAM, Ensemble Intercontemporain, the Stellari String Quartet, and the Kairos Quartett during three summers at the Lucerne Festival Academy in Switzerland, and with Steve Reich, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe at the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival in North Adams, MA. He has toured the U.S. and Canada with experimental chamber music/performance art group thingNY, psychedelic folk band Manson Family Picnic, indie rock band Food Will Win the War, minimalist chamber-rock band Slow Six, Pogues cover band Streams of Whiskey, and Valerie Kuehne’s surrealist Dream Zoo project. With the Oberlin Orchestra and the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble, Jeffrey has performed in New York's Carnegie Hall and Merkin Hall and Cleveland's Severance Hall, as well as in China. He has 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.

Jeffrey performs frequently in New York City, at venues including The Highline Ballroom, B.B. King's, Music Hall of Williamsburg, Mercury Lounge, Galapagos, The Bitter End, The Tank, and The Stone. With flutist Matt Samolis, he co-curates a free improvisation music series in Boston, MA called Beasts of Improvisation on Parade. Jeffrey has been featured on over 20 albums, in genres including classical music, indie rock, prog rock, hip-hop, kids songs, and more. He has also appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman, The Rachael Ray Show, FOX's Fearless Music, and Bravo’s The Fashion Show. He graduated with a B.M. in violin and composition from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in 2007.