Born in Los Angeles, Jed Feuer was moved to New York City at the age of six weeks. Growing up in a musical family, he was by age seven, studying trumpet under Joe Wilder (he later worked with Carmine Caruso). Piano with Joseph Kahn and Eugene Istomin followed shortly thereafter which led to an immersion in harmony, theory and counterpoint. Although working at piano performance during much of the '60s and '70s, due to a lifelong obsession with sculpture, composition was put on hold for a few years. In 1982, his first Off-Broadway musical was produced. Theatre, film and television scores followed. Involved with animal welfare issues since childhood, he writes music for documentaries produced by The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), an organization with which he's been associated for many years. He is now organizing a benefit for the ASPCA, at which Bipolar will perform, to take place July 27, 2010 at Gotham in New York City. In the mid '90s, with Fugue in b minor for chorus & percussion, Feuer's focus turned towards concert music. A 2000 commission resulted in Orchestral Suite (the première of which was performed along with four other Feuer works, at Merkin Concert Hall, NYC, 2003). In 2005, he founded Bipolar.
