Alex Jefferies is a 3rd year performance student at the New Zealand School of Music, studying a Bachelor of Music under the tutelage of Jian Liu and David Barnard. Jefferies enjoys performing solo repertoire as well as being a keen accompanist and chamber musician, who enjoys performing works of varying time periods, genres and instrumental arrangements.
His favourite composers are Ludwig van Beethoven, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Olivier Messiaen. Jefferies is a dual citizen of Australia and Germany, and has been living in New Zealand since 2007, after moving from the Netherlands. He has been working with Tokowha since mid 2021, and in late 2021 co-founded Asilence Duo, a four-hands piano duo with fellow pianist Shangrong Feng.