Simon Jeffes

British composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist, born 19 February 1949 in Crawley, West Sussex; died 10 December 1997 in Taunton, Somerset. Founder of the Penguin Café Quartet, which became the Penguin Café Orchestra at a later stage. Raised in Canada and around Europe, Jeffes began playing the guitar at the age of 13 while attending boarding school in England and then studied classical guitar, piano, and music theory at Chiswick Polytechnic, but dropped out before graduating. Artist's companies page may be found here.