Rodolfo Ortega

Composer & Sound Designer, Sound Engineer

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Rodolfo Ortega is an award winning composer for film, television and theatre. Rodolfo received his Bachelor’s Degree in Music from the University of Arizona and his Master’s of Music degree from Manhattan School of Music where he studied piano and composition. He has sound designed and composed for some of the most prestigious theatre companies in the United States including The Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Romeo and Juliet, The Tenth Muse) and Denver Center Theatre Company (The Three Musketeers, Romeo & Juliet). Rodolfo is also an Associate Artist with Santa Cruz Shakespeare (Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Man in the Iron Mask, Henry IV, Parts I & II). His composition for Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s Love’s Labor’s Lost drew high praise from the Wall Street Journal who called his music “unexpectedly haunting”. Since 2008, he has composed an original musical every year for Northwest Children’s Theatre including Hansel and Gretel, Snow White, Pinocchio, Peter Pan, The Little Mermaid and El Zorrito (which was published by Dramatic Publishing in 2014). For Artists Repertory Theatre he has designed and composed music for Caught, The Liar, Feathers and Teeth, The Talented Ones, Trevor and Intimate Apparel. For Profile Theatre Company his credits include sound design and music for The Blue Door (Portland Drammy Award), A Lesson Before Dying, Lips Together Teeth Apart and Master Harold and the Boys. He has recently composed the music for Aurora Theatre Company’s production of The Monster Builder (San Francisco Drama Critics Award). He has also worked with Cleveland Playhouse Native Gardens and South Coast Repertory Theater The Monster Builder. He has composed for Miracle Theater Group including their productions of Lorca in a Green Dress (Portland Drammy Award), Ardiente Paciencia, Elliot a Soldier’s Fugue. He recently was commissioned to compose the music for Oye’ Oya’ a bilingual musical adaptation of The Tempest for Teatro Milagro. Rodolfo composed the scores for Oregon Children’s Theatre’s productions of Charlotte’s Web, Tuck Everlasting (Portland Drammy Award), BFG, Holes and Cyrano. Additionally he composed the music for the recently published play The Illustrated Bradbury by Ray Bradbury. Rodolfo recently won the Prague Quadrennial Competition in Music for his composition for Artist Repertory Theater’s Magellanica where he was a featured Artist in Prague in June 2019.