Joey Newman

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Joey Newman
Born (1976-09-09) September 9, 1976 (age 47)
OriginUnited States
Genres
orchestrator
, musician, music producer
Instrument(s)Guitar, bass, drums, keyboards
Years active2001–⁠present

Joey Newman (born September 9, 1976) is an American

orchestrator, arranger and conductor working in the fields of film and television.[1]

Early life, family and education

Newman is a third generation film composer, born into a musical family. His father was

Jewish descent.[2]

Raised in

La Boheme at UCLA'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.

Newman began composition studies at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, where he earned a Bachelor of Music degree.

Career

After college, Newman returned to Los Angeles where he began his career working in television with

W.G. "Snuffy" Walden. He co-composed the final seasons of the TV series Once and Again and Providence. Newman also provided orchestrations for Aaron Sorkin's The West Wing among other primetime dramas and sitcoms
.

Newman has composed the music to

Lineage
, one of the biggest online role-playing games in history.

In 2003, Joey began a fruitful collaboration with his cousin Randy, providing orchestrations for the features

Monsters, Inc. Mike & Sulley to the Rescue!
which his cousin, Randy, originally scored.

For six seasons, Joey composed the score to the everyday life of the Roloff family in TLC's

docu-series, Little People, Big World, including the Grand Canyon episode in season 3 for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score).[3] Joey's music can be heard on the ABC comedy The Middle. He composed the score for the 2012 feature film Any Day Now and provided a string arrangement for Rufus Wainwright
's song "Metaphorical Blanket".

Newman composed the score for the 2013 animated short film, Adam and Dog, directed by Walt Disney animator, Minkyu Lee; the film was Oscar-nominated.[4] In late 2016, Newman composed the score to Stephen Vitale's Star Wars fan film Hoshino, starring Anna Akana.[5] The film has over 4 million views on YouTube.

Discography

References

  1. IMDb
  2. ^ MacDonald, Laurence E. The Invisible Art of Film Music: A Comprehensive History, Scarecrow Press (2013)
  3. ^ "Joey Newman". emmys.tv. Academy of TV Arts and Sciences. Retrieved May 23, 2019.
  4. ^ "Minkyu Lee on his Oscar nominated animated short 'Adam and Dog'". goldderby.com. January 24, 2013.
  5. ^ "Hoshino, a Star Wars Fan Film Masterfully Tells the Story of a Blind Jedi's Lightsaber". themarysue.com. November 2, 2016.

External links

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