Multi-faceted composer and performer Seth Bedford blends the musical idioms of Weimar kabarett, American Jazz, Tin Pan Alley, French chanson, tango, New Wave, early 20th Century concert and chamber music, and a variety of other musical sources to create a sound that defies categorization. As a performer, he's taken on the music of Eurythmics, Josephine Baker, Tom Waits, Edith Piaf, Jacques Brel, Kurt Weill and William Bolcom among others to blur the lines of where popular music stops and art music begins. As a composer, he's written music for cabaret, theater, film, chamber music and the symphonic orchestra, and has most recently scored the Peculiar Works Project's production of Can You Hear Their Voices?

In addition to his being a regular composer in residence for New York City's The Chelsea Symphony, he serves as artistic director of The Queer Urban Orchestra and bandleader of his own Huxley Vertical Cabaret Nouveau, an 8-piece acoustic cabaret orchestra performing primarily in New York's Greenwich Village and East Village. With his accordion, he also forms part of the vintage Texana cabaret act “Fein and Dandee”.

Bedford holds a degree in music composition from the University of Texas where he studied with Kevin Putz, Mark Lewis and Dan Welcher. While there, he also studied piano, harp, cello and voice. After graduation, he began teaching public school orchestra in Austin, eventually relocating to New York to follow his career as a chansonnier and composer.

There are entirely too many musical instruments and hats in his apartment, but you can hear Seth's music at www.myspace.com/sethbedford and www.myspace.com/huxleyvertical