Joey Newman
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Joey Newman (born September 9, 1976) is a Los Angeles based film composer, orchestrator, arranger and conductor working in the fields of television, film and video game music. Joey was educated at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA.
[edit] Biography
Joey Newman is a third generation film composer born into a diverse, musical family. His father, Joe Frank Carollo (a Mississippi-born rock/R&B bass player who played with the T-Bones in the 1960’s and the pop group Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds in the 1970’s) and his mother, Jenifer Newman (a classically trained ballerina who danced with the New York City Ballet and the Boston Repertory Ballet) nurtured his musical beginnings. Further inspiration and guidance came from his grandfather, Lionel Newman (the Oscar-winning composer/conductor who headed 20th Century Fox’s Music Department for 46 years after his older brother and nine-time Oscar winner, Alfred Newman, retired) and his composer cousins Randy Newman, David Newman and Thomas Newman.
Born with an innate sense of rhythm, Joey was drumming at the age of three, owning his first set of drums at the age of eight. At nine, he was chosen for the boy’s chorus of The Los Angeles Master Chorale where he performed with The Deutsche Oper Berlin Company's production of Tosca and Die Tote Stadt, featuring Placido Domingo. That same year, he performed in the boy’s chorus of La Boheme at UCLA’s Royce Hall. At the age of 11, he studied piano under the tutelage of Herb Donaldson. A self-taught drummer until the age of 15, he began his serious approach to drumming under the instruction of veteran drummer, Michael Barsimanto (Mark Isham, Jean Luc Ponty, Ivan Neville, Billy Preston).
In 2000, Joey's scoring career began by working with Emmy-winning composer W.G. “Snuffy” Walden, having co-composed on the final seasons of ABC’s Once and Again and NBC’s Providence while providing orchestrations for NBC’s The West Wing and a number of other prime-time dramas. In 2001, Joey composed the music to the world’s largest online role-playing game, Lineage, and in October of 2003, his first independent feature score for Stealing Time, starring Peter Facinelli, Ethan Embry, and Scott Foley was self-released in theaters such as ArcLight Hollywood. That same year, Joey began a fruitful collaboration with his cousin Randy, providing orchestrations for Universal’s Seabiscuit and later Disney/Pixar's Cars.
Despite his diversity in musical endeavors, Joey has stayed continually active in scoring for Television. His current series Little People, Big World on TLC (now in its 4th season) is one of the highest-rated ever for the network. .
