Born in Los Angeles, Jed Feuer was moved to New York City at the age of five weeks. Growing up in a musical family, he studied trumpet under Joe Wilder (subsequently with Carmine Caruso). Piano with Milton Kaye 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 '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.
In the mid '90s, with Fugue in b minor for chorus & percussion, his focus turned toward 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). Today, he continues to write chamber works and his Interruptions for alto sax, cello & trumpet is about to be premièred.
