David McCarthy was born in Winnipeg, Canada. He has degrees in music from McGill University, the Eastman School of Music, and Houghton College, and is a Fellow of the American Guild of Organists. He performs repertoire and improvisations regularly around the Northeast, and teaches music (organ, composition, and theory) privately and at St. John Fisher College and Nazareth College, in Rochester, New York. He is also the organist and choir director at Incarnation Episcopal church in Penfield, NY. His compositions are published by Paraclete Press and Augsburg Fortress, and on his Web site, and have been performed around the world; he has received an annual composer's award from ASCAP since 2005. David lives in Brighton with his wife Sherry and daughter Leah.