Joey Newman is a Los Angeles-based film composer, orchestrator, arranger and conductor working in the fields of film and television
Background
His father, Joe Frank Carollo (a Mississippi-born rock/Rhythm & Blues bass player who played with the T-Bones in the 1960s and the popular group Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds in the 1970s) 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.
Education
Joey was educated at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Master of Arts.
Career
Joey Newman is a third generation film composer born into a diverse, musical family. 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 Plácido Domingo.
That same year, he performed in the boy"s chorus of Louisiana Boheme at University of California, Los Angeles"s Royce Hall.
At the age of 11, he studied piano under the tutelage of Herb Donaldson. He began his serious approach to drumming under the instruction of veteran drummer, Michael Barsimanto (Mark Isham, Jean Luc Ponty, Ivan Neville, Billy Preston).
Joey began composition studies at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, earning his Bachelor of Music degree. He returned to his hometown of Los Angeles where he began his career working in television with Emmy®-winning composer West.G. "Snuffy" Walden, co-composing the final seasons of Once and Again, starring Sela Ward, and Providence, starring Melina Kanakaredes.
Joey also provided orchestrations for Aaron Sorkin"s The West Wing as well as a number of other primetime dramas and sitcoms.
On his own, Joey has composed the music to features, network/cable television series, and video games. As a conductor and orchestrator, Joey has worked across the media spectrum including conducting alongside Michael Tilson Thomas and John Williams. From 2001–2006, Joey composed the orchestral score to NCsoft"s Lineage, one of the biggest online role-playing games in history.
He also conducted the music to the Disney California Adventure Park ride Monsters, Incorporated.
Mike & Sulley to the Rescue! Foreign six seasons, Joey composed the score to the everyday life of the Roloff family in TLC"s hit docu-series, Little People, Big World, including the Grand Canyon episode in season 3 which earned him a 2008 Emmy nomination. Currently in its fourth season, Joey"s music can be heard on the American Broadcasting Company comedy The Middle starring Patricia Heaton and Neil Flynn and freshman National Broadcasting Company series The Mysteries of Laura, starring Debra Messing.
Foreign the award-winning feature Any Day Now, Joey composed the score and provided a string arrangement for Rufus Wainwright"s original song "Metaphorical Blanket".