Dear Applicant,
Thank you for your interest in the Hartvigsen Internship. Here at Hartvigsen, our mission is to utilize research-based music therapy techniques to help our students maximize their cognitive/academic, motor/sensory-motor, and social/behavioral abilities. Our value statement is: Through building authentic relationships, students will feel empowered and valued and know their opinions matter.
I love being an Internship Director. I highly encourage you to come “hang” with us for at least a few hours before your actual audition/interview. The interns who did this say they experienced a lot less anxiety during their interview. We enjoy showing off our students to visitors. The application materials may be found on our website or may be obtained through email. I view the interview process as an assessment. It helps me know where an incoming intern is in their music therapy process. That way I can better mentor them when they begin their internship.
1. Hartvigsen Application: Please complete all questions electronically, and then email them back to me. Your letters of recommendation and transcript do not need to come all-together.
2. Clinical and Music Skill Assessment Expectations: This document explains the music skills I will ask to see when you come for an interview. At the end of the document it discusses briefly the clinical session, you will lead with your students. Additional information will come after the date and time of your interview is set.
3. 2026-2027 - Calendar (tentative): For your information – look at the top of the form for the Key
4. Hartvigsen Flier & Fact Sheet
Please contact met to let me know when a good time will be for you to come to the facility to lead a group session (that you create and facilitate) and complete the music skill portion of the interview. We are here Monday – Friday 7:40am-2:40pm. (M-Th, the last session of the day starts at 1:15 pm)
Please be aware that the internship will be based on the school year August 10, 2026 – May 27th, 2027. As an intern, you will be expected to arrive by 7:30am each morning and have an anticipated leave time of 2:40pm. This will be dependent on how efficiently you use your time, combined with how much assistance you need. You will be hired on as Hartvigsen non-contract instructional assistants (IAs) and paid for 29 hours of your time each week for your clinical time with students. In addition, you will be assigned a student to bring in from the bus in the morning and out again in the afternoons. You will be trained along with the other IAs in all expectations and responsibilities for Hartvigsen and Granite School District. Your assignment will be to me as a Hartvigsen teacher. By doing so, you have a part time job, which happily covers a 75% of your internship hours. It took me 14 years to negotiate these terms, and am so pleased my interns can be compensated for their hard work! 😊 This year the interns are making $18.47 an hour. I also encourage my interns to apply for scholarships through UAMT, AMTAS as well as WRAMTA. Now that my interns technically have a part time job, the financial need for scholarships has decreased.
Due to only having 7 clinical hours per day, and the numerous days off for holidays, breaks, and compensatory days, it has been impossible for interns to complete the necessary requirements in a six-month period. The increased time will allow for better clinical learning and improved service to the students of Hartvigsen. The total possible clinical hours are 1281. If I have more than one intern, it may be possible to adjust ending dates by staggering start dates, thus shortening the length of the internship.
I have several interns who would be happy to talk with you about the Hartvigsen Internship from an intern’s perspective. Their emails are as follows: Current intern: N/A
Hope Ward hope.ward@canyonsdistrict.org
Cammy Bonny: cammyken265@gmail.com
Abigail Yates: abigailcjohnson@gmail.com & Lyndsay Murdock: louwheel13@gmail.com
Amy Loertcher: aloertscher10@graniteschools.org, & Mandee Lawson: mlawson10@graniteschools.org
Curtis Sanderson: sandersonfam13@gmail.com & Kaelie Gerber: thehappyviolinist@gmail.com
Samantha Fry: samanthafry516@gmail.com & Aubrey Christensen: aub.christensen@gmail.com
Taylor Neibergall: taylorbringhurst7@gmail.com & Bethany Sorenson: bethanysorenson16@gmail.com
If you decide not to pursue an application with me here at Hartvigsen, please let me know as well so I can effectively facilitate other applicants’ interviews.
Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.
Alison Wendel Bennett, M.Ed.,SCMT, MT-BC Hartvigsen School - Internship Director 385-646-7069
This document will explain what I expect to see from applicants to assess their skill levels in for piano, guitar, voice, and improvisation.