With many active subsidiaries including Edward B. Marks Music Co. (which in 1994 celebrated its 100th Anniversary), and a constantly expanding catalog of copyrights that continue to excite and attract film and television audiences, record buyers, and product consumers everywhere, CARLIN AMERICA, INC. endures as an industry leader and currently one of the most successful and significant powers in music publishing.

About Freddy Bienstock:
An industry icon who emigrated to the United States from Austria just before World War II, FREDDY BIENSTOCK went from a first job as stock boy at Chappell & Co. to becoming its Chairman four decades later.  After his initial years at Chappell, where he rose to become a valued song plugger, Freddy joined Hill and Range Songs, the publishing company established by his cousins Julian and Jean Aberbach, and began his association with, among other major stars, Elvis Presley, who, throughout his career, would continue to rely on Freddy to choose the songs he recorded.

In 1957, Freddy married Miriam Abramson (a co-founder of Atlantic Records) and in 1966 acquired the Hill and Range UK affiliate Belinda Music which he renamed Carlin Music Corporation after his daughter Caroline, the present Chief Operating Officer of Carlin America. He soon expanded the Carlin Music catalog by associations with such hit makers as the Kinks, the Animals, Cliff Richards and the Shadows, in addition to representing Jobete Music, the publishing arm of Motown Records.  Three years later, Freddy left Hill and Range to form The Hudson Bay Music Company with songwriters Leiber and Stoller and rapidly acquired such major assets as the Koppelman and Rubin music firms, which published the songs of Bobby Darin,Tim Hardin and John Sebastian, and later, the label and publishing divisions of two seminal rhythm and blues companies, Starday and King Records. His holdings were further enlarged by the acquisitions of Herald Square Music and Times Square Music, the New York Times music firms that were the preeminent Broadway show publishers of their era with scores such as Fiddler on the Roof, Cabaret, Company, Follies and Godspell, and hits by songwriters Peter Allen, Marvin Hamlisch, Carole Bayer Sager, etc.

When his partnership with Leiber and Stoller ended in 1980, Freddy, along with the estates of Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rodgers, acquired Edward B. Marks Music Co., the publishers of George M. Cohan, Billie Holiday (Fine and Mellow, God Bless the Child, etc.), Ernesto Lecuona (Malaguena, The Breeze and I), Jim Steinman (Meat Loaf, etc.) in addition to numerous classic American song standards and works by such significant serious composers as William Bolcom, Norman Dello Joio and Roger Sessions.  Soon after, Freddy acquired and became the largest stockholder and Chairman of Chappell and Co., which he then sold to Warner Communications several years later.

Still a driving force in music publishing, FREDDY BIENSTOCK is a Board Member of both the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA).  He continues to operate Carlin Music Corp. in England, with its recorded music library currently being the second largest UK company in its field, and is also the Chairman of his many US firms under the umbrella name of Carlin America, Inc., among the most successful independent music publishing conglomerates in the world today. 

About Caroline Bienstock:
Since 1989, when CAROLINE BIENSTOCK began as President/Chief Operating Officer of Carlin America, Inc., the company her father, music publishing titan and Carlin Chairman Freddy Bienstock named for her, she has rapidly become regarded as among the most respected, astute and dynamic executives in the music industry.

A New York City native, Caroline graduated cum laude from Yale College in 1979 before earning her JD at Boston University School of Law four years later and becoming an associate at the New York office of the prestigious Chicago law firm Seyfarth Shaw Fairweather & Geraldson.  After acquiring an MBA from the Wharton School in 1987, Caroline joined the Private Client Services division at Goldman, Sachs & Co. for the two years before being named to her current position at Carlin America.

In her present post, Caroline's main areas of concentration include the Carlin operation in Nashville, the organization-wide expansion into film music acquisitions and licensing, catalog growth and administration, and the newly-activated Carlin Music Publishing Canada Inc. subsidiary.  Additionally, Caroline is the current Executive Director of the Association of Independent Music Publishers (AIMP), on the Board of Directors of the National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA) as well as the Board of the Advisory Panel for the BMI Foundation, and a Member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA), the Copyright Society and the Entertainment and Sports Law section of the New York State Bar Association. 
 

About Robert Bienstock:

As the son of music publishing legend (and Carlin America CEO and founder) Freddy Bienstock and Atlantic Records co-founder Miriam Bienstock, it was inevitable that ROBERT BIENSTOCK would achieve importance and success in the music industry as well. 

Presently Senior Vice President of Business Affairs and Operations for Carlin America where his sister Caroline is the Chief Operating Officer, Robert began his music business career in the early 70s as an apprentice recording engineer at Atlantic Records after his freshman year at Northwestern University.  This initial employment rapidly led to numerous tenures as a staff engineer most notably including Starday Recording in Nashville and the famed Fantasy Records studios located in the Bay Area where Robert also resumed his academic pursuits.  Graduating from the University of San Francisco in 1976 with a Bachelor degree in Communication Arts and Dean's List honors, Robert then joined The Hudson Bay Music Company in New York as its Professional Manager and was also involved with various recording projects in association with such celebrated producers as Leiber and Stoller and Andrew Loog Oldham. 

A growing fascination with law then returned Robert to college life and studies at the Fordham University School of Law where he frequently contributed articles on copyright issues to the Law School newspaper, was founder and officer of the Fordham Entertainment and Sports Law Council and won a Burkan Competition prize for his essay on copyright law.  After placing on the Dean's List for two consecutive years and being named to the Fordham Law Review, Robert earned his Law J.D. in 1985 graduating in the top 10 percent of his class.  Soon after he joined the New York offices of the renowned Los Angeles law firm of O'Melveny & Myers and, while consulting in copyright and intellectual property law, specialized in real estate transactions that included secured and convertible loans, property acquisitions and leveraged buy-outs, real estate securitizations, limited partnership syndications and leasing. 

In 1994, ROBERT BIENSTOCK joined Carlin America, Inc. in his current position where he manages information systems and technologies, oversees all corporate legal and operational matters as well as the activities of both the Royalty and Licensing departments within the company.