Rodolfo Ortega Composer

Rodolfo Ortega (Composer) has composed music and designed sound for numerous theaters in Portland Oregon and across the region. He received his Bachelor’s Degree in Music from the University of Arizona and his Master of Music degree from Manhattan School of Music where he studied piano and composition. He has composed music and designed sound for the recent productions of Artist Repertory Theatre’s Enchanted April, Frozen, The Seagull, and Bug. He has composed many of the production’s at Miracle Theatre including the recent production’s of Lorca in a Green, Adriente Paciencia and Elliot a Soldier’s Fugue. For the Profile Theatre Company his credits include designing the music for Lisbon Traviata, Redwood Curtain, Talley’s Folley, and Talley and Sons. Additionally he has composed the music for Frankenstein, for which he received a Drammy Award in 2006, True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, The Hobbit, Diary of Anne Frank, and Sleepy Hollow for The Northwest Children’s Theatre and Charlotte’s Web, Tuck Everlasting, BFG, Holes and Cyrano for Oregon Children’s Theatre. He also recently music directed Oregon Children’s Theatre’s production of Ferdinand the Bull. For the 2000-2001 season he was awarded the Drammy in Sound Design and Composition for a season of outstanding work. In the 2001-2002 season he was again awarded the Drammy for his compositions for Tuck Everlasting for Oregon Children’s Theater, and in 2004 he received the Drammy in Composition for Lorca in a Green Dress.