Brian Dugan, Bennington College

• Studying: composition and audio engineering
• With Argento: Intern, Winter 2013
• Area of specialty: audio editing and processing
• On the internship: Working with protools helped me a great deal. I learned how to follow along with a score and edit the audio accordingly...[The] most memorable moment was when there was a rehearsal in the apartment. I was finally able to hear the content in which i was editing.

Tobin Bartolo, Bennington College

• Studying: music and video production
• With Argento: Intern, Winter 2013
• Area of specialty: video editing

Meghan Baumann, Bennington College

• Studying: voice
• With Argento: Intern, Winter 2013
• Area of specialty: adminstration, social media, grant writing

Kathryn Graham, University of Michigan

• Major: voice performance with teacher certification
• With Argento: Intern, Summer 2012
• Areas of specialty: grants research, music notation, publicity, writing
• On the internship: "It is one thing to sit in a classroom or read a book on how to be an administrator for an arts organization. Actually doing it gives you more insight and knowledge than any course or book could give you."
• On her writing assignments: "I found the writing assignments, such as writing blurbs for the website and press releases, very useful. Talking through my writing with my supervisor gave me the opportunity to see what goes into an engaging and effective piece of writing for an arts organization."
• Most memorable moment: "The two concerts [in Philadelphia] gave me the opportunity to see all of the non-musical and musical work that Argento puts into an event in action. I also got to make my conducting debut with Argento :-)"

Laurette Siler, Bennington College

Concentration: sound engineering
With Argento: Intern, Winter 2012
Areas of specialty: music library, video and sound editing, copyright research
Highlights: "I liked getting practice with Pro Tools and picking Michael Klingbeil’s brain." "...figuring out how to connect Pro Tools to external outputs almost completely on my own was pretty nice!"
Most memorable moment: "I really liked seeing Argento in their element, playing a show...it was definitely fun and really solidified my belief in everyone’s talent."

Nathaniel Doubleday, Bennington College

Concentration: music
With Argento: Intern, Winter 2012
Areas of specialty: music library, organizational research
Highlights: "Working with multi-camera footage of new music performances...allowed me to develop a stronger sensitivity to narrative in editing - essential to any project. Setting up a multi-cam shoot independently was also good practice...my interests are largely oriented toward video, multimedia and music, I am appreciative of the fact that Argento allowed me to combine these areas of interest into a single series of projects."
Most memorable moment: "Attending and working at a live concert toward the end, after having worked with similar footage for the past month."

Dmitri Glickman, Bennington College

Concentration: music
With Argento: Intern, Winter 2012
Areas of specialty: music library, music arrangements and notation

Andrey Stolyarov, Lehigh University

Major: composition and vocal performance
With Argento: Intern, Summer 2011
Areas of specialty: musical arrangements, music notation, music library
Highlights: "I was looking forward to working with scores and parts of arrangements and I was able to do just that."

Aled Roberts, New York University

Major: composition
With Argento: Intern, Summer 2011
Areas of specialty: musical arrangements, music notation, music library

Summer Video Production Program

Helen Han: Emerson College / Doe Productions
Claudia Lopez: New York University / Independent Producer
Samantha Schwarz: Lafayette College, majoring in English and Film Production

Christopher Prodoehl, New York University

Completing dissertation in: philosophy
With Argento: Intern, Spring 2011; research assistant since summer 2011
Areas of specialty: grants research, grantwriting

Kim Nucci, Bennington College

Concentrations: composition, visual arts (painting and photography), saxophone performance
With Argento: Intern, Winter 2010
Areas of specialty: music library, video editing, web site design
Argento experience: "I particularly liked going through all the scores and seeing examples of music written...outside the normal repertoire...Listening in on rehearsals helped me gain a better point of reference for how [Haas's] in vain worked. I don't think I would have picked up on many of the finer points had I just heard it for the first time at the Armory concert."

Caitlin Featherstone, Oberlin Conservatory of Music

Major: trumpet
With Argento: Intern, Winter 2011
Areas of specialty: music library, video editing

Julie Hill, Berklee College of Music

Major: composition
Activities: composition, voice, piano
With Argento: Intern, Summer 2010
Areas of specialty: music library, purchasing
Argento experience: "The opportunity to attend the Argento performances was priceless. There are very few things as beneficial to a young composer as hearing a really great performer play a well-written piece."
Favorite Argento moments: "Watching Carol McGonnell blow away some Grisey."
After Argento: "...study composition with Nils Vigeland at MSM."

Cooper Troxell, Vassar College

Major: applied linguistics and musical structures
Activities: composition, guitar
With Argento: Intern, Summer 2010

Yvonne Wang, New York University

Majors: music, business
Activities: composition, violin, piano
With Argento: Intern, Spring/Summer 2010; production assistant since fall 2010
Areas of specialty: musical arrangement, Sibelius notation extraordinaire, marketing materials

Abraham Goldmintz, Bennington College

Major: literature; music
Activities: composition, creative writing
With Argento: Intern, Winter 2010
Areas of specialty: policy development, digital media archival

Jeremy Kirakofe, Bennington College

Major: music
Musical activities: composition, guitar
With Argento: Intern, Winter 2010
Areas of specialty: musical arrangements, Finale notation

Jill Schackner, Barnard College

Major: music
Musical activities: opera, musical theater, a cappella ensembles; songwriting
With Argento: Intern, Fall 2009
Areas of specialty: finance, copyright, digital media archival
Argento experience: "My first job was working at LPR and the ACF for the Moving Sounds Festival, and it was the first time I had ever heard the Argento Chamber Ensemble perform. This was incredibly exciting and drove my enthusiasm in interning for the rest of the semester." Favorite Argento moments: "Watching Michel conduct at a rehearsal was really interesting, and the way everyone gave their input for their performance was fascinating."
After Argento: Evergreen Copyrights

Natasha Yamane, Barnard College

Majors: neuroscience, music
With Argento: Intern, Summer/Fall 2009
Areas of specialty: archives and preservation, electronic media

Marina Evans, Barnard College

Musical activities: jazz vocals. Lead vocal in My Ship (Rockport, Mass.)
With Argento: Intern, Spring 2009

Kathryn Hathaway, Barnard College

Major: English, music
Musical activities: composing, the Varsity Show
With Argento: Intern, Fall 2008, Spring 2009
Argento experience: "I chose Argento because I had read about it's achievements online and in newspapers...I was also very interested in the type of new music that they were performing. I especially enjoyed being able to help Michel notate music on Finale...I got to see some scores for pieces I hadn't heard by composers that I really liked."
After Argento? "...looking for work in arts administration and theater companies...get my plays and musicals produced...maybe an MFA in playwriting."
After Argento: Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
Favorite Argento moments: "The concerts! Those were my favorites. Chatting with Fabien Levy ... meeting with some of the composers."

Ryan Beppel, Columbia College

Major: music
Musical activities: composition, recording engineering
With Argento: Intern, Spring 2008; production assistant, since Spring 2009
Argento experience: "I got to examine scores, compositional work and a little bit of conducting...I saw how these musicians tackle these highly demanding pieces. It gave me a lot of insight into what to expect from a certain score, how it is conducted, and most important, what it sounds like."
Favorite Argento moments: "Assisting Helmut Lachemann during a rehearsal and writing notes for him. It was just wild to talk to such a ground breaking composer and see his interesting take on orchestration at work."
After Argento: His composition Receptive Asphasia is the 2010 winner of the New Voices Project (Philadelphia chapter of the American Composers Forum). Argento performed the world premiere on April 3, 2010, at Temple University. Now Ryan is studying composition in Switzerland with Georg Friedrich Haas at the Hochschule für Musik Basel.

Katie Moore, Barnard College

Major: economic history
Musical activities: a cappella, musical theater
With Argento: Intern, Spring 2008
After Argento: doctorate program at Boston University in history
Argento experience: "I wanted to work at a music organization...and was curious to see what [a non-profit] was like. I learned a lot about was how a non-profit organization operates and how funding is attained."
Favorite Argento moments: "I really enjoyed working at the concerts."

Ruth Weiss, Barnard College

Major: religion
Musical activities: cello, voice
With Argento: Intern, Summer 2007, Barnard Alumnae and Donor Sponsored Internship Grant; Production Assistant, Fall 2007
Argento experience: "I enjoyed and felt I learned a lot from writing grant letters of inquiry and program notes."
After Argento: Internship at the American Jewish Committee; graduate program at the Jewish Theological Seminary
Favorite Argento moments: "Argento rehearsals...and brainstorming how to raise money."
After Argento: Masters program at JTS

Elesse Eddy, Barnard College

Major: physics
Musical activities: voice, tuba
With Argento: Intern, Spring 2007; Production Assistant: Spring 2008
Argento experience: "I got to work on designing Argento's press kit and create different flyers for publicity."
After Argento: Internship at the English National Opera; Publications Coordinator, Barnard College; Commercial Banking Strategy and Development at Citizens Bank, Boston
Favorite Argento moments: "It's amazing to meet some of the famous composers that Argento works with, like Helmut Lachenmann, for example."