Offered by Vanier College in Montréal, 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).
At a glance
Degree:Diploma
Field:Music
Duration: 3 years
Language: French
Local tuition: CAD 3,740 / year
International tuition: CAD 19,610 / year
Information for the 2027/28 academic year · Last reviewed September 2026 ·
Program details
Overview
Professional Music and Song Techniques (French: Techniques professionnelles de musique et de chanson, DEC 551.A0) is a career program at Vanier College leading to a Diploma of Collegial Studies. It trains students to compose, arrange, and perform music professionally, combining ear training, music theory, and history courses with individualized instruction on the student's principal instrument or voice. Coursework also covers notation software and recording-studio production, preparing students for professional practice. The program offers two specialization streams, Composition and Arrangement and Performance, which students choose between after a first year shared with Vanier's Pre-University Music program. Learning takes place across the college's music facilities, including recording studios, practice rooms, and a recital hall, giving students access to professional-grade equipment. Entrance scholarships are available to applicants with the strongest audition results. The program suits students with an existing foundation on an instrument or in voice who intend to pursue performance, songwriting, or production careers, or continue to university-level music studies.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Professional Music and Song Techniques (551.A0) recommends but does not require Music 502 (or cégep-equivalent 551-004-VA) or equivalent recognized music training, on top of Vanier's college-wide Quebec secondary-school baseline. All applicants must complete an audition on their principal instrument or voice plus an entrance exam in theory and ear training, detailed on Vanier's music-auditions page; entrance scholarships go to the highest-scoring auditions, and admission is offered in Autumn and Winter. No IELTS/TOEFL-style English score is required: Vanier's admissions pages confirm English-proficiency testing is no longer an admission requirement, while a CEFR B2 French test (TCF, DELF, DALF or TEF) is required only of out-of-province/international applicants who did not complete Quebec secondary schooling.
Application Details
Start Date:September and January
Application Deadline:Domestic and international applicants to Vanier College apply through the shared SRAM portal (admission.sram.qc.ca) serving Montréal-region cégeps. For Winter 2027, applications opened 15 September 2026, Round 1 closes 1 November 2026 and Round 2 closes 25 November 2026, with unfilled seats carried forward. SRAM has not yet posted Fall 2027 domestic dates. Internationally, SRAM's Fall 2027 window runs 15 March 2026 to 14 March 2027; its next window (Winter 2028) runs 1 June 2026 to 31 May 2027. Admission is rolling by round, not a single fixed date. Vanier's own international-applicants page confirms international students use the same SRAM system as domestic ones, bound by the same round deadlines. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
