Megan BARTH Argo
Megan Barth Argo is an accomplished collaborative artist who has performed and studied throughout the United States and Barcelona, Spain. She has performed and participated in numerous festivals including Brevard Music Festival, Kent Blossom Music Festival, Songfest, Baldwin Wallace Art Song Festival, Source Song Festival, and the Atlantic Music Festival, where she was both a pianist and apprentice coach under the renowned vocal coach Arlene Shrut. In the summer of 2016, Ms. Argo served as a Collaborative Piano Fellow and Faculty Member for the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival. She also served as a coach, pianist, and music director for Oklahoma City University Summer Programs from 2013-2023. Some of the artists she has had the pleasure of working with include Roger Vignoles, Warren Jones, Graham Johnson, Susanne Mentzer, Libby Larsen, William Bolcom, Jake Heggie, John Musto, and many others.
Ms. Argo is an accomplished music director who has music-directed over 50 opera and music theater productions, two of which have received awards in the Opera Production Competition through the National Opera Association. Some her most renowned performances include a complete performance of Franz Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin with tenor Jeffrey Picòn in March 2014, the Oklahoma premiere of Kurt Erickson’s Here, Bullet with baritone André Chiang in September 2020, Music and Humanity: Music of Jake Heggie and Sister Helen Prejean with mezzo-soprano April Golliver-Mohiuddin, and most recently the US-Premiere of Jermeny Sam's new English translation of Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin (The Fair Maid of the Mill) with baritone Leslie John Flanagan. From November 2023-July 2025 Ms. Argo served as the Executive Artistic and Music Director of Scissortail Productions Inc. During her residency she programmed, arranged, and music directed numerous performances in art song, opera, musical theater, and jazz and supervised the marketing and social media for the company. Most recently she music-directed the jazz ensemble Stardust who opened for The Brubeck Brothers as a part of Scissortail's Levitt AMP Clinton Series.
In addition to performing, Ms. Argo is an avid educator and an active member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, the National Opera Association, Maestras, the International Keyboard Collaborative Arts Society, and the College Music Society. Since May 2020 she has served as the co-founder and co-administrator of Songs for a New Week, a Facebook and Instagram resource page for students, educators, and performers. She has served as the Opera and Vocal Coach of the Greenwood School of Music at Oklahoma State University since 2018 and previously served on faculty at Oklahoma City University, Ashland University, and Kent State University.
Ms. Argo holds an MM in Vocal Coaching from Oklahoma City University under the tutelage of Jan McDaniel, an MM in Piano Performance from Kent State University under the tutelage of Donna Lee and Joela Jones Weiss, and a BA in Piano Performance from Ashland University under the tutelage of Elizabeth Pastor.