David Carp, Librarian

David M. Carp's performing background includes work as a recorder player with the Orchestra of St. Luke's, New York City Opera, Folger Consort, Philharmonia Virtuosi, Waverly Consort, and the New York Renaissance Band, and recordings for the CBS, Telarc, and Nonesuch labels. An active free lance music preparer, he engraved the score of Stephen Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George, and has typeset musical examples for Keyboard Classics, The Piano Stylist, and other magazines and academic publications. His music preparation clients have included the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, New York City Ballet, Detroit Symphony, North Carolina Symphony, and Peer Classical.

One of the busiest orchestra librarians in the New York metropolitan area, Mr. Carp is orchestra librarian for the Westchester, Brooklyn and Long Island Philharmonics, American Ballet Theatre, and the Colonial Symphony and has served in this capacity for the Bard Music Festival, Queens Symphony Orchestra, and Naumburg Orchestra. Previous activities in the field include working as rental librarian for Carl Fischer Music, and as the archive librarian at the Milken Archive of American Jewish Music. Since 2005, he has managed the library of Themes and Variations, one of the world's major providers of film music.

In 1984, Mr. Carp founded Carp Music as an outlet for his wind chamber music arrangements, which are performed nationally and internationally.

Mr. Carp is a major oral documentarian of Latin American popular music, an interest developed while working as a producer at WNYC-FM. His audio documentary The Palladium Ballroom: Home of the Mambo was aired on NPR's "Horizons" series; his article Salsa Symbiosis: Barry Rogers, Eddie Palmieri's Chief Collaborator in the Making of La Perfecta was published in 2002 by the Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies (CUNY.) Mr. Carp has interviewed over 200 Latino musicians, dancers, music industry operatives, and community members. He is also a prolific writer of program and liner notes; his writing can be read online at www.descarga.com, and www.jalc.org.

Mr. Carp is married to oboist Melanie Feld, and lives in Leonia, New Jersey. The Carp household includes son Joshua, daughter Lizzie, and cats Peanut, Junior, Navy, and Choco.