Program Requirement:
The Post-Graduate Artist Diploma in Performance is a third-cycle, one-year post-Master’s program that enables an intensive focus on the pursuit of performance goals at the highest level, through repertoire expansion and refinement of artistry, including intensive coaching, practice, and varied performance projects. Admission is by audition, with candidates having previously completed an M.Mus. or equivalent.
Required Courses (16 credits)
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MUIN 715
Post-Grad Art. Dip. Tutorial 1
8 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Practical Instrument: Practical instruction. Coaching and mentorship in support of the development of artistic goals defined by the student in consultation with the instructor.
Offered by: Performance
- Restrictions: Only open to students in the Post-Graduate Artist Diploma in Performance program. Not open to students who have taken MUIN 710.
- Terms
- Instructors
- John Mac Master, Dominique Labelle, Joanna G'froerer, Brian Manker, Andre J Roy, Elizabeth Dolin, Michael McMahon, Marina Mdivani, Kyoko Hashimoto, James O Box, Stefano Algieri, Matt Haimovitz, Tracy Smith Bessette, Marina Thibeault, Violaine Melancon
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MUIN 716
Post-Grad Art. Dip. Tutorial 2
8 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Practical Instrument: Practical instruction. Continued coaching and mentorship in support of the development of artistic goals defined by the student in consultation with the instructor.
Offered by: Performance
- Restrictions: Only open to students in the Post-Graduate Artist Diploma in Performance program. Not open to students who have taken MUIN 711.
- Terms
- Instructors
- John Mac Master, Dominique Labelle, Joanna G'froerer, Brian Manker, Andre J Roy, Elizabeth Dolin, Michael McMahon, Marina Mdivani, James O Box, Stefano Algieri, Matt Haimovitz, Tracy Smith Bessette, Marina Thibeault, Violaine Melancon
Complementary Courses (14 credits)
8 credits from the following:
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MUPG 750
Post-Grad Art. Dip Perf Proj 1
4 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Performance: A public solo, collaborative piano, chamber music recital, or preparation/presentation of a Featured Opera Role (by audition).
Offered by: Performance
- Restrictions: Only open to students in the Post-Graduate Artist Diploma in Performance program. Not open to students who have taken MUPG 740.
- Recital (40 - 45 minutes).
- Terms
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUPG 751
Post-Grad Art. Dip Perf Proj 2
4 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Performance: A second public solo, orchestral repertoire, collaborative piano, chamber music recital, or preparation/presentation of a Featured Opera Role (by audition).
Offered by: Performance
- Restriction(s): Only open to students in the Post-Graduate Artist Diploma in Performance program. Not open to students who have taken MUPG 741.
- Recital (40 - 45 minutes).
- Terms
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUPG 752
Post-Grad Art. Dip Perf Proj 3
8 Credits*
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Performance: A public solo, collaborative piano, chamber music recital, or Lead Opera Role (by audition).
Offered by: Performance
- Restrictions: Only open to students in the Post-Graduate Artist Diploma in Performance program. Not open to students who have taken MUPG 742.
- Recital (65-75 minutes).
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUPG 752D1
Post-Grad Art. Dip Perf Proj 3
4 Credits*
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Performance: A public solo, collaborative piano, chamber music recital, or Lead Opera Role (by audition).
Offered by: Performance
- Restrictions: Only open to students in the Post-Graduate Artist Diploma in Performance program. Not open to students who have taken MUPG 742.
- Recital (65-75 minutes).
- Terms
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUPG 752D2
Post-Grad Art. Dip Perf Proj 3
4 Credits*
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Performance
Offered by: Performance
- Restrictions: Only open to students in the Post-Graduate Artist Diploma in Performance program. Not open to students who have taken MUPG 742.
- Recital (65-75 minutes).
- No credit will be given for this course unless both MUPG 752D1 and MUPG 752D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
- MUPG 752D1 and MUPG 752D2 together are equivalent to MUPG 752.
- Terms
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUPG 753
P-G Art Dip Interdisc Project
4 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Performance: A composition commission, a research-related project (e.g., transcription, performance edition) or inter-disciplinary collaboration (music technology, dance, performance/sound recording student collaboration) that results in a public performance or through recorded media.
Offered by: Performance
- Prerequisites: Approval of the Department.
- Restrictions: Only open to students in the Post-Graduate Artist Diploma in Performance program. Not open to students who have taken MUPG 743.
- Enrolment by proposal only.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUPG 754
P-G Artist Dip. Concerto Perf.
4 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Performance: Concerto performance.
Offered by: Performance
- Restrictions: Only open to students in the Post-Graduate Artist Diploma in Performance program. Not open to students who have taken MUPG 744.
- Minimum duration 20 minutes; two works may be presented in the case of shorter concerti.
- Terms
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
* Students may take MUPG 752 or MUPG 752D1 and MUPG 752D2.
0-3 credits from:
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MUSR 692
Music Production Workshop
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Sound Recording: The Seminar aims at giving Music Performance and Sound Recording students the tools to becoming better recording artists, performers and recording engineers in today’s music scene. It will help them acquire skills and abilities as well as develop an informed judgement about recorded music performances and the recorded sound.
Offered by: Music Research
- 3 hours.
- Restriction(s): This seminar is open to second year masters and doctoral Sound Recording students, master's and doctoral Performance and Graduate Artist Diploma students only.
*Needed of all instruments except Voice.
3-6 credits from the following:
Performance courses with Schulich School of Music approval from the following lists:
3-6 credits from any ensemble courses with the prefix MUEN at the 500 or 600 level
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MUPG 571
Free Improvisation 1
1 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Performance: Introduction to the creative practice of improvisation for performers. The course focuses on the development of listening as applied to the practice of collective and solo improvisation.
Offered by: Performance
- Prerequisite(s): Audition.
- Restriction(s): Available to Music students; open to others by permission of the department. Not open to Jazz students. Not open to students who have taken MUEN 571.
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MUPG 572D1
Free Improvisation 2
0.5 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Performance: This course is designed for performers who want to develop their skills as advanced improvisers. Both collective and solo contexts are addressed as performance practices, touching upon the history of improvisation as well as current trends.
Offered by: Performance
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MUPG 572D2
Free Improvisation 2
0.5 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Performance: This course is designed for performers who want to develop their skills as advanced improvisers. Both collective and solo contexts are addressed as performance practices, touching upon the history of improvisation as well as current trends.
Offered by: Performance
and the additional courses from the following list:
Voice
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MUIN 610
Vocal Coaching 1
1 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Practical Instrument: Individual coaching sessions on advanced vocal repertoire with emphasis on musical and linguistic nuance.
Offered by: Performance
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MUIN 600
- Terms
- Instructors
- Rona M Nadler, Suzie Leblanc, Dorothéa Ventura, Dana Nigrim, Martin Dubé, Louise Pelletier, Michael McMahon, Esther Gonthier, Patrick J Hansen, Julien M LeBlanc, Stephen Hargreaves
- Rona M Nadler, Suzie Leblanc, Dana Nigrim, Martin Dubé, Louise Pelletier, Michael McMahon, Esther Gonthier, Patrick J Hansen, Julien M LeBlanc, Stephen Hargreaves
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MUIN 611
Vocal Coaching 2
1 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Practical Instrument: Continuation of Vocal Coaching I with emphasis on musical and linguistic nuance.
Offered by: Performance
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MUIN 601
- Terms
- Instructors
- Louise Pelletier, Michael McMahon, Esther Gonthier, Stephen Hargreaves
- Rona M Nadler, Suzie Leblanc, Dorothéa Ventura, Dana Nigrim, Martin Dubé, Louise Pelletier, Michael McMahon, Esther Gonthier, Patrick J Hansen, Julien M LeBlanc, Stephen Hargreaves
Piano
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MUPG 670
Advanced Continuo 1
2 Credits**
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Performance: A historically-oriented study of the principles of figured bass. Standard idioms from historical treatises will be introduced. Preparation of operatic excerpts from the standard high Baroque repertory is required.
Offered by: Performance
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MUPG 671
Advanced Continuo 2
2 Credits**
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Performance: A study of the many different styles of figured bass accompaniment as revealed in contemporary sources. The emphasis will be on realization at the keyboard of representative 17th- and 18th- century operatic recitatives and arias.
Offered by: Performance
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MUPG 687
Collab. Piano Rep. 1: Song
1 Credits***
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Performance: Issues in collaborative piano song repertoire and performance in different genres and musical styles.
Offered by: Performance
- Prerequisite: MUEN 556 or equivalent or permission of the instructor
- Restriction: Open to graduate students in collaborative piano or with the permission of the instructor
- Terms
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUPG 688
Collab. Piano Rep. 2: Instrum.
1 Credits***
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Performance: Issues in collaborative piano instrumental repertoire and performance in different genres and musical styles.
Offered by: Performance
- Prerequisite: MUEN 556 or equivalent or permission of the instructor
- Restriction: Open to graduate students in collaborative piano or with the permission of the instructor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUPG 689
CollabPianoRep3:Orch/Red/Op/Or
1 Credits***
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Performance: Issues in collaborative piano orchestral reduction, opera, oratorio and performance in different genres and musical styles.
Offered by: Performance
- Prerequisite: MUEN 556 or equivalent or permission of the instructor
- Restriction: Open to graduate students in collaborative piano or with permission of the instructor
- Terms
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
** if not already taken
*** may be repeated with permission of the instructor
Chamber Music
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MUIN 500
Practical Instruction 1
1 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Practical Instrument: Individual coaching sessions for musicians in advanced ensembles to focus on their individual instrumental technique.
Offered by: Performance
- Restriction(s): Open only to musicians in Chamber Music Stream in the Graduate Diploma in Performance and the Graduate Artist Diploma. May be taken by D.Mus. students with special permission.
- 30 minutes
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
Organ
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MUPG 575D1
Organ Rep. and Perf. Practice
1.5 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Performance: Seminar covering topics related to organ playing, such as liturgical organ playing, organ repertoire and improvisation.
Offered by: Performance
- 1. 1 1/2 hours
- 2. Students must register for both MUPG 575D1 and MUPG 575D2.
- 3. No credit will be given for this course unless both MUPG 575D1 and MUPG 575D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUPG 575D2
Organ Rep. and Perf. Practice
1.5 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Performance: For description see MUPG 575D1.
Offered by: Performance
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MUPG 670
Advanced Continuo 1
2 Credits**
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Performance: A historically-oriented study of the principles of figured bass. Standard idioms from historical treatises will be introduced. Preparation of operatic excerpts from the standard high Baroque repertory is required.
Offered by: Performance
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MUPG 671
Advanced Continuo 2
2 Credits**
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Performance: A study of the many different styles of figured bass accompaniment as revealed in contemporary sources. The emphasis will be on realization at the keyboard of representative 17th- and 18th- century operatic recitatives and arias.
Offered by: Performance
One 3-credit seminar at the 500 or 600 level approved by the Department.
** if not already taken
Early Music
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MUPG 670
Advanced Continuo 1
2 Credits**
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Performance: A historically-oriented study of the principles of figured bass. Standard idioms from historical treatises will be introduced. Preparation of operatic excerpts from the standard high Baroque repertory is required.
Offered by: Performance
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MUPG 671
Advanced Continuo 2
2 Credits**
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Performance: A study of the many different styles of figured bass accompaniment as revealed in contemporary sources. The emphasis will be on realization at the keyboard of representative 17th- and 18th- century operatic recitatives and arias.
Offered by: Performance
** if not already taken