Filipe Leitão is an award-winning composer, music producer, and educator. He is Assistant Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, teaching a new collaborative curriculum in Media Scoring. He earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at The University of Alabama, a Master of Fine Arts degree in Music Production and Sound Design for Visual Media at the Academy of Art University (San Francisco, CA), and a Bachelor in Art Education at the University of The State of Pará, in Belém, Brazil, where he served as an Assistant Professor at the Federal University of Pará. As an educator, he has taught composition, orchestration, music production, and film scoring. Dr. Leitão has collaborated with many artists, creating original compositions and sound design for films and video games, as well as he has written electronic works, and concert pieces for varied ensembles. His works reflect his unique voice originated from a mix of classical music, popular music, Brazilian music, and film music, and have been recognized at both national and international levels, and obtained prizes and performances on renowned film and music festivals, including New York Electroacoustic Music Festival, Electronic Music Midwest, University of Tennessee Contemporary Music Festival, SCI Conferences, Belgian Saxophone Choir, North American Saxophone Alliance Conference, Cannes Short Film Corner, Toronto Film Week, Anima Mundi, and WorldFest Houston, to name a few.

Filipe Leitão

Filipe Leitão is an award-winning composer, music producer, and educator. He is Assistant Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, teaching a new collaborative curriculum in Media Scoring. He earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at The University of Alabama, a Master of Fine Arts degree in Music Production and Sound Design for Visual Media at the Academy of Art University (San Francisco, CA), and a Bachelor in Art Education at the University of The State of Pará, in Belém, Brazil, where he served as an Assistant Professor at the Federal University of Pará. As an educator, he has taught composition, orchestration, music production, and film scoring. Dr. Leitão has collaborated with many artists, creating original compositions and sound design for films and video games, as well as he has written electronic works, and concert pieces for varied ensembles. His works reflect his unique voice originated from a mix of classical music, popular music, Brazilian music, and film music, and have been recognized at both national and international levels, and obtained prizes and performances on renowned film and music festivals, including New York Electroacoustic Music Festival, Electronic Music Midwest, University of Tennessee Contemporary Music Festival, SCI Conferences, Belgian Saxophone Choir, North American Saxophone Alliance Conference, Cannes Short Film Corner, Toronto Film Week, Anima Mundi, and WorldFest Houston, to name a few.

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Filipe Leitão is an award-winning composer, music producer, and educator.

He is Assistant Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, teaching a new collaborative curriculum in Media Scoring. He earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at The University of Alabama, a Master of Fine Arts degree in Music Production and Sound Design for Visual Media at the Academy of Art University (San Francisco, CA), and a Bachelor in Art Education at the University of The State of Pará, in Belém, Brazil, where he served as an Assistant Professor at the Federal University of Pará. As an educator, he has taught composition, orchestration, music production, and film scoring.

Dr. Leitão has collaborated with many artists, creating original compositions and sound design for films and video games, as well as he has written electronic works, and concert pieces for varied ensembles. His works reflect his unique voice originated from a mix of classical music, popular music, Brazilian music, and film music, and have been recognized at both national and international levels, and obtained prizes and performances on renowned film and music festivals, including New York Electroacoustic Music Festival, Electronic Music Midwest, University of Tennessee Contemporary Music Festival, SCI Conferences, Belgian Saxophone Choir, North American Saxophone Alliance Conference, Cannes Short Film Corner, Toronto Film Week, Anima Mundi, and WorldFest Houston, to name a few.

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Composition
Logic Pro
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Mix

Experience Level

Composition
Expert
Logic Pro
Expert
Mix
Expert

Language

English
Fluent
Portuguese
Fluent

Education

Doctor of Musical Arts at The University of Alabama
August 13, 2016 - May 5, 2019

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Industry Experience

Education, Media & Entertainment
    uniE613 Grounded
    An award-winning animated short film by Thomas de Maleingreau; Music & Sound Design by Filipe Leitão. https://vimeo.com/762415141
    uniE613 Flutterby
    A short by Ruchirek Yui Somrit. Music by Filipe Leitao https://vimeo.com/190316975
    uniE613 EU (ME)
    Film by Ludmila Dayer, Music by Filipe Leitão, 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y27mRheO4M
    uniE613 Oração ao Vento
    Music Produced and Arranged by Filipe Leitão https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIzQMgTrlmk