MARIA CONTERNO - Sound Engineer
Birthdate: 07/01/1982
Nationality: Italian, Belgian
Email: mar.sounds.contact@gmail.com
Driving licence: B (own car)
WORK EXPERIENCE
June 2022 - present: Sound Tech - Planning - Team Coordination, Flagey (part-time)
January-June 2022: Conference Technician, European Parliament
2019 - present: Freelance Live Sound Technician (La Monnaie-De Munt, Ancienne Belgique, The Music Village, Sounds Club)
2020: Sound Technician, Ancienne Belgique (three-month internship)
August 2019: Assistant Live Broadcast, Q-Music Radio (internship)
2004-20018: Univeristy researcher and teacher (Istituto Italiano di Science Umane, Princeton University, Collège de France, Universiteit Gent, Université Libre de Bruxelles)
EDUCATION
2021: Training as 'Reference Person for Amplified Sound' (Bruxelles Environnement)
2026: Dante Certificate - Leve 1
2018-2020: BA in Audio Production, SAE Institute (Brussels)
2007-2011: PhD in History (Istituto Italiano di Science Umane, Florence)
2004-2007: MA in Religious Studies (Università Ca'Foscari, Venice)
2001-2007: BA in Classics (Università di Padova)
TECHNICAL SKILLS
ProTools, Logic, Reaper, IzotopeRX
IT Networks (Dante Certificate - Level 1)
Analogue and digital consoles (Midas, Allen&Heath, Yamaha, Behringer, Digico)
HF microphones and HF frequency management softwares (Shure Workbench)
Microsoft and Mac-based softwares
Planification softwares
LANGUAGES
Italian (native speaker)
French (bilingual)
English (C2, Cambridge Proficiency)
Dutch (C1)
Spanish (working knowledge)