Internships

An internship at ManHatPro gives qualified students the opportunity to experience the inner workings of a Midtown Manhattan recording facility, an exclusive community (award winning composers, producers and engineers) and an innovative new business model.

ManHatPro is a unique organization and has received considerable attention in the entertainment industry press with recent articles in both Post and Mix Magazines. Some recent projects include: a 4 CD (4.5 hours long) recording of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde, an original score for Cecile B. DeMille's King of Kings (DVD release on Criterion), music for Spike TV, Nickelodeon, and Disney as well as scores for a number of smaller films including a new project from the director of Super Size Me.

Composers working in film and TV have very specific modes of music production. An internship at the Alliance is an opportunity for students to learn how professional composers score for film and TV and deliver finished music on demanding schedules with the highest level of production values.

Interns must be available at least two days per week 10:00am-6:00pm. Our internships provide experience in two main areas of the music industry:

Music Business and Marketing Support
(Research, Writing, Office Management)
Experience in research, writing, phone and day-to-day office administration required as well as familiarity with Word/Excel and Act!. Tasks can include: market research, creating business correspondence/memos, sales and communicating with clients.

Studio Production Support
(For Students with a Music and Audio Engineering Background)
Knowledge of hard disk recording technologies including Pro Tools and Logic Audio is required. Applicants must be detail oriented, pro active and highly motivated. We ask that you, as an intern show dedication beyond the ordinary to these responsibilities:

• A range of administrative work
• Studio Assisting
• Composers Assistant Duties (which are dependent upon each students understanding of the software, Logic, Digital Performer, Pro-Tools etc.)
• Office Maintenance (stocking supplies, maintaining inventories and keeping a clean work area environment)

We work in an extremely entrepreneurial and non-hierarchical environment - all members of our organization share in the care and maintenance of our facility. In short, you will definitely be asked to clean a bathroom. As well, if you show us that you are hard working and competent, there are a myriad of higher level tasks that await you: from assisting on production project to helping launch major marketing campaigns.

Interested? Please contact Wade Tonken at