Yochk’o Seffer

Yochk'o Seffer, born Seffer József on 10 July 1939 in Miskolc (Hungary), is a French composer and instrumentalist of Hungarian origin. He is also a painter and sculptor, including of some of his own instruments (the “sculptophonies” or “sefferophones”). A saxophonist (he plays all seven instruments in the saxophone family) and pianist, he also plays the flute, clarinets, and tárogatós (Hungarian wind instruments of Turkish origin, which he has been rehabilitating since 2004).

To evoke his musical roots, he often says, “My grandfather is Bela Bartok and my father is John Coltrane.”