Caroline Bienstock, Former President/CEO of Carlin Music, Dies at 68
Bienstock worked for decades at Carlin, the publishing company her father named after her.
Caroline Bienstock, a former president and CEO of Carlin Music, has died at the age of 68 in New York after a prolonged illness. She was born in 1958, the daughter of two notable figures in the music industry - her mother Mariam, an executive and co-founder of Atlantic Records, and her father Freddie, who founded Carlin Music in 1966 after buying out the owners of his previous publisher.
The company, which was headquartered in the famed Brill Building, was known for its catalog that included hits by artists such as Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Stephen Sondheim, AC/DC, and James Brown. Carlin Music was acquired by Round Hill Music for approximately $250 million in 2017. Before joining Carlin, Bienstock pursued a legal career and worked at Goldman Sachs.
She joined Carlin in the late 1980s and rose through the ranks, becoming CFO and COO by 1998 and president by 1993. Beyond her role at Carlin, she served on the boards of the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA), ASCAP, AIMP, and the Songwriters Hall of Fame, receiving the Abe Olman Publisher Award in 2017.
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