Filipe Leitão

Filipe Leitão is an award-winning Brazilian-born composer, music producer, sound designer with 10+ years of music creation experience. He is Assistant Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, teaching and developing a new collaborative curriculum in Composition and Sound Design for Cinema, Games, and Motion Media. 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, film scoring, and has mentored students composing tonal and non-tonal, electronic, popular, videogame, and film music, including teaching digital audio workstations.