Joey Newman

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. In late 2016, Newman composed the score to Stephen Vitale's Star Wars fan film Hoshino, starring Anna Akana. The film has almost 900,000 views on YouTube.

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). 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".

In 2003, Joey began a fruitful collaboration with his cousin Randy, providing orchestrations for the features Seabiscuit and Cars. He also conducted the music to the Disney California Adventure Park ride Monsters, Inc. Mike & Sulley to the Rescue! which his cousin, Randy, originally scored.

Newman 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.

Joseph V Carollo (born September 9, 1976) is an American film composer, orchestrator, arranger and conductor working in the fields of film and television.

Newman is a third generation film composer, born into a musical family. His father was Joe Frank Carollo, a Mississippi-born rock/R&B bass player who played with the T-Bones in the 1960s and the pop group Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds in the 1970s. Newman's mother, Jenifer Newman, was a classically trained ballet dancer who danced with the New York City Ballet and the Boston Repertory Ballet. His grandfather was Lionel Newman, the Oscar-winning composer/conductor who headed 20th Century Fox's Music Department for 47 years after Lionel's older brother and nine-time Oscar winner, Alfred Newman, retired. Newman's cousins include composers Randy Newman, David Newman, Thomas Newman and Maria Newman. His family is of Jewish descent.