Joey Newman was born on September 9,1976 and is an American film composer, orchestrator, arranger and conductor working in the fields of film and television.
11 Facts About Joey Newman
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Joey Newman's mother, Jenifer Joey Newman, was a classically trained ballet dancer who danced with the New York City Ballet and the Boston Repertory Ballet.
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Joey Newman began his serious approach to drumming under the instruction of veteran drummer, Michael Barsimanto.
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Joey Newman began composition studies at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, where he earned a Bachelor of Music degree.
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Joey Newman co-composed the final seasons of the TV series Once and Again and Providence.
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Joey Newman provided orchestrations for Aaron Sorkin's The West Wing among other primetime dramas and sitcoms.
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In 2003, Joey Newman began a fruitful collaboration with his cousin Randy, providing orchestrations for the features Seabiscuit and Cars.
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For six seasons, Joey Newman 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.
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Joey Newman composed the score for the 2012 feature film Any Day Now and provided a string arrangement for Rufus Wainwright's song "Metaphorical Blanket".
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Joey 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.
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In late 2016, Joey Newman composed the score to Stephen Vitale's Star Wars fan film Hoshino, starring Anna Akana.