Offered by Collège Lionel Groulx in Sainte-Thérèse, Canada, Diploma in Techniques professionnelles de musique et de chanson is a diploma in Music programme. The programme runs for 3 years. Teaching is in French. Tuition for international students is CAD 19,610 per year (CAD 3,740 per year for local students).
Techniques professionnelles de musique et chanson is a technical DEC at Collège Lionel-Groulx lasting at least three years, with fall admission. Distinct from the college's pre-university Musique program, it focuses on popular-music practice geared toward the realities of working musicians and performers. Within the program, students choose one of three specializations: Interprétation en musique populaire, centred on performing pieces across different styles and developing individual technique; Composition et arrangement, centred on songwriting, composition, and arranging for live performance; and Interprétation en théâtre musical, a specialization the college describes as unique to it, combining singing, acting, and dance across musical-theatre styles. Regardless of specialization, students can take part in the college's performance ensembles, including the Orchestre symphonique Lionel-Groulx Rive-Nord, the Big Band Lionel-Groulx, and the Chœur Lionel-Groulx. The program suits students who want to work professionally in music or musical theatre and are drawn to a specific performance, composition, or interpretive path rather than the broader academic pre-university music stream.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: The programme's own page carries no admission section (only cheminement/duration/session facts) and instead points to the College's general admission conditions and to SRAM. Under the College's general basis, a candidate qualifies for a DEC by holding a Diplôme d'études secondaires (DES), subject to any programme-specific conditions; a Diplôme d'études professionnelles (DEP) plus passes in 5th-secondary language of instruction, 5th-secondary second language and 4th-secondary mathematics; training the College judges equivalent; or training and experience the College judges sufficient, with at least 24 cumulative months outside full-time study. Applications go through SRAM (admission.sram.qc.ca), with round-1 deadlines of 1 March for a Fall start and 1 November for a Winter start; this programme admits in the Fall session only. On top of the general basis, this programme (in each of its specializations, confirmed on the Composition et arrangement page) names the audition and the secondary-school record as its selection criteria: candidates must also submit a separate audition request and pay the non-refundable $38 audition fee before the stated deadline, in addition to the SRAM application.
Application Details
Start Date:Fall
Application Deadline:Domestic applicants apply through the Service régional d'admission du Montréal métropolitain (SRAM) at admission.sram.qc.ca: the college's own admission page states an equal-consideration date of 1 March for Fall entry and 1 November for Winter entry, which for the 2027 cycle fall on 1 March 2027 (Fall) and 1 November 2026 (Winter), with Winter 2027 applications opening 15 September 2026. Collège Lionel-Groulx does not publish a dedicated international-admissions page of its own; international applicants would follow SRAM's system-wide window, published as 15 March 2026 to 14 March 2027 for Fall 2027 entry, though the college has not confirmed this itself. Admission proceeds round by round on a rolling basis after each equal-consideration date until seats are filled. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
