Biography
David Carbonara is currently scoring the original series Mad Men for the AMC network, written and created by Matthew Weiner, a writer and executive producer for the Sopranos.
As a film composer, Carbonara's credits include Working Title's British comedy hit, The Guru (starring Heather Graham and Marisa Tomei), for which he artfully mixed traditional Indian instruments into a western ensemble. Also internationally, he scored two French produced films for director Amos Kolleck, Queenie in Love and Fast Food, Fast Woman, which premiered at Cannes, as well as Brazilian director Ana Carolina's Amélia. Other U.S. credits include David O. Russell's critically-acclaimed Spanking the Monkey, Nick Smith's Monumental and James Ryan's award-winning The Young Girl and the Monsoon.
For television Carbonara has scored the ABC pilot Elizabeth Street for executive producer Martin Scorsese and director Miguel Arteta and Jon Sherman's My Sexiest Mistake for the Oxygen Network.
Carbonara has also composed music for theater, scoring productions at the Atlantic Theater Company and Playwright's Horizon in New York City and The American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge.
As a music editor, Carbonara has recently worked on the upcoming films, License To Wed (starring Robin Williams) and on Bob Odenkirk’s directorial debut, Let's Go to Prison (starring Dax Shepard, Will Arnet). Also in 2006, he worked on The Lake House (starring Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves) which was his fourth time working with academy-award winning composer Rachel Portman. Carbonara was the music editor on the two Oscar-nominated scores Portman wrote for Director Lasse Hallström’s films, The Cider House Rules and Chocolat, as well as on her score for Jonathan Demme's The Truth About Charlie. Carbonara has also worked as a music editor for directors Ron Howard, M. Night Shyamalan, David Mamet, Milos Forman, Stanley Tucci, Steve Buscemi and Robert Benton and for academy-award winning composers Michel LeGrand and Howard Shore.
A former jazz and touring trombonist, Carbonara has a bachelor degree in film scoring from the Berklee College of Music (1985).
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