Orlando Legname

plays midi guitar, MacBook Pro, midi controllers, and sound samples, loops and effects of his own design.

Dr. Legname is a composer, conductor, theorist and Digidesign Certified Pro Tools Expert. He received his degree of Doctor of Music Arts in Composition from the University of Maryland and has taught in the Music Technology program at New York University. Currently, he holds the positions of Music Department Chair and Director of the Audio Arts Production Program at SUNY Oneonta.

Legname received several research grants for Development of New Electronic Music Instruments and was the recipient of the College’s Academic Excellence Award for Innovative Uses of Instructional Technology.

Dr. Legname has received numerous awards and honors for his compositions, including the Walsum Award (First Prize) at the University of Maryland (1999), and the Best Music for Theater of 1990 Award from the prestigious APCA (São Paulo Art Critics Association) in Brazil.

His publications include a 2005 textbook entitled Audio Arts Production (Erudition Books: North Chelmsford); and his recent lecture Searching for Semantics in Music: A Global Discourse is soon to be published in a book entitled Language and Globalization.

As Manager and Musical Director of ARTIUM Arts Center in São Paulo (1987-1996), Legname served as Executive Producer and arranger of numerous CD recordings, as well as Music Director of instructional video titles and composer of five theatrical plays. As a musician, he performed on movie sound tracks and in jingles for television commercials.