College Certificate in Music - Performance is a certificate in Music programme taught at Conservatoire de Musique et d’art Dramatique du Québec in Québec, Canada. The programme runs for 2 years, delivered on campus. Tuition for international students is CAD 784 per credit (CAD 0 per credit for local students).
At a glance
Degree:Certificate
Field:Music
Duration: 2 years
Delivery: On Campus
Local tuition: CAD 0 / credit
International tuition: CAD 784 / credit
Information for the 2027/28 academic year · Last reviewed September 2026 ·
Program details
Overview
This college-level certificate is a two-year, 32-unit program offered through Quebec's Conservatoire network, with an interpretation profile focused on performance. The program is built around developing musical and listening skills for personal musical expression, paired with the acquisition of stage experience, and students concentrate on their chosen instrument or voice while building technical proficiency and interpretive ability. Specializations are organized by family: strings such as violin, viola, cello, bass, guitar, and harp; winds including bassoon, clarinet, French horn, euphonium, flute, oboe, saxophone, trombone, trumpet, and tuba; keyboard instruments such as piano, organ, harpsichord, and the Ondes Martenot; plus voice and percussion. These specializations are offered across several Conservatoire campuses in Quebec, from Gatineau to Val-d'Or. Admission requires either the Conservatoire's preparatory music certificate or a jury audition demonstrating clear musical and artistic aptitude. The program suits serious music students who already have prior instrumental or vocal training and a demonstrated technical foundation and are committing to focused, professionally oriented study.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: The Conservatoire's admission conditions for this Certificat d'etudes collegiales in Interpretation ask applicants to either hold the Conservatoire's own Certificat d'etudes preparatoires en musique (CEPM), or pass a jury audition demonstrating clear musical and artistic ability; unlike the parallel diploma program, this certificate page does not require a Diplome d'etudes secondaires (DES). No French- or English-language proficiency test, minimum age, or grade average is published; applicants should consult the Conservatoire's separate audition-preparation requirements for repertoire details.
Application Details
Application Deadline:The Conservatoire de musique et d'art dramatique du Québec runs one province-wide admission process with a per-campus deadline rather than a single SRAM-style date. For the cycle currently published (entry in the 2026-2027 school year), the deadline to submit an application was 1 February 2026 for Montréal, 1 March 2026 for Gatineau, Québec and Trois-Rivières, 15 March 2026 for Val-d'Or, 1 April 2026 for Rimouski, and 1 May 2026 for Saguenay, each followed by campus-specific auditions. The next admission period, for 2027-2028 entry, opens 1 November 2026, but per-campus dates for that cycle are not yet posted. The site draws no distinction between domestic and international applicants, so no separate international deadline is published. Admission is not rolling: each campus works to its own fixed cutoff ahead of auditions. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
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