Biography

David Carbonara is best known as composer of the critically acclaimed series "Mad Men", winner of multiple awards including three Golden Globes® and four consecutive Emmy's® for Outstanding Drama Series. Carbonara's mix of contemporary score and period jazz inspired many "Mad Men" soundtracks. In that same vein he recently produced and composed songs for the Amazon series, "The Last Tycoon", with the pilot episode being written and directed by Billy Ray, based on the unfinished, final novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Carbonara's latest feature film score for "They/Them/Us", an independent comedy starring Joey Slotnick, and Amy Hargreaves. Other films include: Matthew Weiner's "Are You Here" starring Owen Wilson and Zach Galifanikas, "Some Girl(s)" written by Neil LaBute with Emily Watson and Kristen Bell and Working Title's "The Guru" starring Heather Graham and Marisa Tomei. Carbonara has also scored two French films for director Amos Kolleck; "Queenie in Love" and "Fast Food, Fast Woman" which premiered at Cannes; and "Amélia" for Brazilian director Ana Carolina. Additional film credits include David O. Russell's "Spanking the Monkey", and James Ryan's award-winning "The Young Girl and the Monsoon".

His recent work is another Matthew Weiner collaboration for Amazon Prime's "The Romanoffs". Other television projects include the mini-series, "The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe" and the CBS series, "Vegas," starring Dennis Quaid and Michael Chicklis for producer James Mangold, and "Elizabeth Street" for executive producer Martin Scorsese and director Miguel Arteta. 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.

Carbonara also released a collection of beat driven instrumentals, inspired by the CTI records of the late 60s and early 70s called "Back To One" which features musicians from many of the Mad Men sessions, as well as "The Last Tycoon" sessions.
- IMDb mini biography by: David Carbonara