Diploma in Musique is a diploma in Music programme taught at Cegep de Trois-Rivieres in Trois-Rivières, Canada. The programme runs for 2 years. Teaching is in French. Tuition for international students is CAD 15,150 per year (CAD 3,740 per year for local students).
Musique (501.A0) is a two-year preuniversity DEC at Cégep de Trois-Rivières that develops musical aptitude, including ear training, rhythmic sense, and memory, through applied instrumental study. Students choose between a jazz-pop or classical instrumental option and select among musical creation, performance, or song-and-show profiles for workshops and complementary training. The curriculum covers music analysis, theory, and solfège alongside weekly individual instrument lessons and participation in ensembles and workshops such as choral singing, chamber music, jazz vocals, stage band, and pop-jazz guitar ensemble. Instruction is available on a wide range of instruments, from strings and winds to piano, organ, and percussion, in a computer-assisted music lab equipped with two concert grand pianos. Students can take part in an international music-related trip and are exposed to the local music scene through partnerships with Festivoix and the Orchestre symphonique de Trois-Rivières. The program suits students with an active performance practice who plan to continue into university music studies.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Admission to the Musique programme (501.A0) begins with Cégep de Trois-Rivières' general collegial admission conditions: a Diplôme d'études secondaires (DES) from the youth or adult sector, or a Diplôme d'études professionnelles (DEP) plus Secondary 5 language of instruction, Secondary 5 second language and Secondary 4 mathematics, applied for through the SRAM network. Beyond this, the programme requires applicants to pass a musical audition assessing their musical aptitude and training. Candidates admitted in SRAM's first round are convoked between 15 and 30 March to tests in music theory, solfège, rhythm and dictation as well as on their instrument. Full audition guidance is published on the college's dedicated audition-information page. No portfolio, interview or standardized language-proficiency test is mentioned as a separate condition.
Application Details
Start Date:September
Application Deadline:Domestic applicants apply through the Service régional d'admission du Montréal métropolitain (SRAM): for Fall 2027 entry the equal-consideration date (1st round) is 1 March 2027, followed by a second round in early-to-mid April and a third around mid-to-late May, with the college noting exact round-2/3 dates vary slightly each year; Winter 2027 entry opened 15 September 2026 with a 1 November 2026 first-round deadline and a late-November second round. International applicants apply directly through SRAM as well and face a firm 14 March 2027 closing date for Fall 2027 day programmes, with the college advising early submission because of immigration-processing timelines; no separate winter international deadline is published. Admission proceeds round by round on a rolling basis until each round's seats are filled. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
