Faculty of Music competitions
Musique Excellence Competition
Musique Excellence competition - Winter 2025 semester
Competition opens: March 2025
Submission deadline: Wednesday, March 26 at 5:00p.m.
A total of $63,000 for Winter 2025!
Scholarships available:
- Doctoral programs: 7 scholarships of $5,000 each
- Master's programs: 7 scholarships of $4,000 each
Eligibility criteria:
- Be enrolled full-time in a graduate program at the Faculty of Music of the Université de Montréal for the Winter 2025 term.
- Have completed at least one (1) term at the Université de Montréal (supporting transcript required).
- Have a cumulative grade point average of at least 4.0 at the graduate level.
- Not have received an excellence scholarship for the Fall 2024 term.
Application file:
Please send the following documents to bourses@musique.umontreal.ca:
- All your transcripts (bachelor's, master's, and doctoral if applicable).
- A curriculum vitae in French including:
- A list of scholarships, grants, and awards applied for.
- A list of scholarships, grants, and awards received.
- A list of publications and presentations (scientific and professional).
- Names and contact information of two referees (no recommendation letters required).
- A letter of intent in French (maximum 500 words) highlighting achievements relevant to your field of study and explaining why you believe you deserve this excellence scholarship. In addition to experiences directly related to your field of study, you may also mention significant accomplishments in other areas (sports, community involvement, etc.) and explain how they make you a stronger candidate for the scholarship.
Only complete applications will be considered.
Applications must be received no later than Wednesday, March 26 at 5:00 p.m.
Please note: Recipients of a SSHRC or FRQSC scholarship are not eligible for the Music Excellence Competition of the Faculty of Music.
Financial-support competition (not offered in 2024-2025)
Financial-support competition – (not offered in 2024-2025)
Competition opens: (not offered in 2024-2025)
Submission deadline: (not offered in 2024-2025)
Grants offered
Objectives
These grants are intended for Faculty of Music students who demonstrate financial need while making efforts to contribute to the funding of their studies that meet the eligibility criteria below.
Eligibility criteria
- Be enrolled fulltime or be deemed full-time student (according to the Québec Act Respecting Financial Assistance for Education Expenses) in one of the Université de Montréal Faculty of Music programs (excludes free studies and incoming exchange students).
- You must have completed at least 1 semester at Université de Montréal (supporting transcript).
Application
To fill out the form, you must log on using your institutional email address. The documents needing to be uploaded in the application form:
- Download and fill out the budget worksheet. Answer according to your annual estimates.
- The most recent unofficial transcript.
- Certification of your "deemed full-time" status, if applicable. The term “deemed registered full-time” refers to the Quebec Student Financial Aid regulations which recognize certain students registered part-time as being registered full-time due to their personal or family situation.
- Certification of UdeM disability support accommodation measures, if applicable.
Please note:
- It’s possible to apply for a financial-support grant and for the Musique Excellence competition, if you are eligible.
- In cases of withdrawal from a program or a where a file is not in order, no grant will be awarded. Recipients of an SSHRC or FRQSC grant are not eligible for the Faculty of Music’s Musique Excellence and financial-support competitions.
- For all other details on how grant deposits work, visit the following section.
- Also, don’t hesitate to look into the other grants available at Université de Montréal!