Disciplines/associated instruments
French-language singing

Amount
Variable

Number of grants awarded
Variable

Critères de sélection

• Competitive, with singing audition
• Be enrolled full-time in a classical singing performance program
• Demonstrate an interest (supporting letter) in the repertoire of French-language singing
• Have an excellent academic record

Deadline
April 20th, 2023 at 13 p.m.

Description of the grant

Procedure for submitting an application
File the required documents on the Faculty of Music’s upload site

• Registration form
• Letter of interest for the scholarships
• Transcripts

Registration form

Resource person
Valérie Rousseau-Parent

Distinctive features
None

Disciplines/associated instruments
Piano

Amount
$5,000

Number of grants awarded
Variable

Selection criteria

• Be enrolled full-time in a graduate-level piano performance program
• Be in a precarious financial position
• Demonstrate outstanding potential as a musician, and be committed to a career in piano

Deadline
Autumn

Procedure for submitting an application
No procedure; grant recipients are chosen by the piano program head

Resource person
Valérie Rousseau-Parent

Distinctive features
None

Disciplines/associated instruments
Piano

Amount
$1,000 (minimum)

Number of grants awarded
Variable

Selection criteria

• Be enrolled full-time in a graduate-level piano performance program
• Have an above-average academic record

Deadline
Autumn

Procedure for submitting an application
No procedure; grant recipients are chosen by the piano program head

Resource person
Valérie Rousseau-Parent

Distinctive features
Aucune

Disciplines/associated instruments
Jazz

Amount
$1,500

Number of grants awarded
2

Selection criteria

• Be enrolled full-time in an undergraduate or graduate jazz performance or composition program

Deadline
March. Award presented at the last annual concert of the Université de Montréal Big Band (March/April)

Procedure for submitting an application
No procedure; grant winners are chosen by the jazz program head

Resource person
Valérie Rousseau-Parent

Distinctive features
None

Disciplines / associated instruments
Piano

Amount
Variable

Number of grants awarded
Variable

Selection criteria

• Be enrolled fulltime in the Faculty of Music
• Have demonstrated outstanding musical qualities throughout the academic career
• Have maintained a grade of excellence in the target discipline
• Possess an excellent academic record

Deadline
Early autumn

Procedure for submitting an application
No procedure; grant recipients are chosen by the head of piano programs

Resource person
Valérie Rousseau-Parent

Distinctive features
None

Disciplines/associated instruments
Opera singing

Amount
Variable

Number of grants awarded
Variable

Selection criteria

• Competitive, with singing audition
• Be enrolled full-time for the current year in a classical singing performance program
• Demonstrate an interest (supporting letter) and experience in the field of opera
• Have an excellent university record
• As a priority come from the Maritime provinces, otherwise from anywhere else in Canada
  

Deadline
September (at the same time as the opera auditions)

Procedure for submitting an application
File the required documents on the Faculty of Music’s upload site

• Signed registration form
• Curriculum vitae
• Letter of interest for the opera by describing experiences in this field
• A copy of the last transcript
• A copy of the birth certificate

Form
2021-2022 competition form

Resource person
Valérie Rousseau-Parent

Distinctive features
None

Type of grant
Piano

Amount
Variable

Number of grants awarded
1

Critères de sélection

• Be enrolled fulltime in a piano performance program
• Be a foreign student
• Be in need of financial support
• Possess an above-average academic record

Deadline
Autumn

Procedure for submitting an application
No procedure; the grant recipient is chosen by the head of piano programs

Resource person
Valérie Rousseau-Parent

Distinctive features
None

Disciplines / associated instruments
Classical performance, composition or musicology

Amount
1 grant of $1,250
1 grant of $1,000

Number of grants awarded
Variable

Selection criteria

• Be enrolled fulltime in a graduate-level program in classical performance, composition or musicology

Deadline
Autumn

Procedure for submitting an application
File the required documents on the Faculty of Music’s upload site, in the Fonds Les Amis de l’Art folder

• Signed registration form
• Curriculum vitae
• A copy of the last transcript

Applications in performance: a recent (less than one year old) 15-minute recording

Applications in composition: a recent (less than one year old) score or recording

Applications in musicology: a short written work of a maximum of 15 typewritten pages, presented as part of the applicant’s studies

AND

Email the letter of recommendation (page 3 of the Form) to the scholarships technician, Valérie Rousseau-Parent

Form
Exemple

Resource person
Valérie Rousseau-Parent

Distinctive features
None

Disciplines / associated instruments
Trombone

Amount
$2,000 (minimum)

Number of grants awarded
1

Selection criteria

• Be enrolled fulltime in the Faculty of Music
• Be a newly admitted student in a classical trombone performance program
• Receive final approval from a vice-dean and from the head of wind instrument performance programs

Deadline
October

Procedure for submitting an application
No procedure; the grant recipient is chosen by Professor David Martin

Resource person
Valérie Rousseau-Parent

Distinctive features
None

Disciplines / associated instruments
Opera singing

Amount
$8,000 (minimum)

Number of grants awarded
1

Selection criteria

• Competitive, with singing audition
• Be enrolled full-time for the current year in a classical singing performance program
• Be an outstanding student
• Have a career plan and a budget associated with the plan

Deadline
November

Procedure for submitting an application
Please send to Valérie Rousseau-Parent, scholarships technician, the following information and document:

• Your full name
• Your program number/name
• A copy of your last transcript

Resource person
Valérie Rousseau-Parent

Distinctive features
None

Disciplines / associated instruments
Orchestre de l’Université de Montréal (OUM)

Amount
Variable

Number of grants awarded
Variable

Selection criteria

• Be enrolled fulltime in the Faculty of Music
• Have a high-quality academic record
• Excel in performance on an orchestral instrument

Deadline
Late October

Procedure for submitting an application
No procedure; grant recipients are chosen by a jury composed of four Faculty members, including OUM artistic director Jean-François Rivest

Resource person
Valérie Rousseau-Parent

Distinctive features
None

Disciplines/associated instruments
Composition

Amount
$12,000

Number of grants awarded
1

Selection criteria

• Be enrolled full time in the Faculty of Music’s doctoral program in composition
• Present an outstanding academic record

Deadline
November

Procedure for submitting an application
File the required documents on the Faculty of Music’s upload site, in the Perras, Cholette & Cholette folder

Upload in a single file

• A copy of the last transcript
• A description of the research project
A recording of a representative work

Resource person
Valérie Rousseau-Parent

Distinctive features
None

Disciplines / associated instruments
Winds

Amount
Variable

Number of grants awarded
Variable

Selection criteria

• Be enrolled fulltime at the Faculty of Music in one of the undergraduate or graduate classical winds performance programs
• Have been selected to participate in one or another of the large ensembles (classical performance)
• Have demonstrated outstanding qualities as an instrumentalist
• Have an above-average academic record

Deadline
Autumn

Procedure for submitting an application
No procedure; grant recipients are chosen by the heads of the winds program

Resource person
Valérie Rousseau-Parent

Distinctive features
None

Disciplines / associated instruments
Composition

Amount
$2,000

Nombre de bourses attribuées
1

Selection criteria

• Be enrolled fulltime in a master’s or doctoral program in composition
• Provide a 2-minute excerpt illustrating a composition project of an audiovisual work of roughly 10 minutes written for small instrumental ensemble, medium to advanced level
• Possess an excellent university record

Deadline
March-April

Procedure for submitting an application
File the required documents on the Faculty of Music’s upload site, in the Prix Jean-Marie Benoit folder

• The registration form
• A letter presenting a draft plan for the use of funds
• A curriculum vitae
• A copy of the last transcript
• A two-minute excerpt illustrating an approximately 10-minute composition project for an audiovisual work, written for a small instrumental ensemble, of a medium to high degree of difficulty, plus the full score
• Evidence of consent from the rightful owners for the visual works used
• A letter of recommendation from the assigned composition teacher, emailed directly to Valérie Rousseau-Parent 

Resource person
Valérie Rousseau-Parent

Distinctive features
None

Disciplines/associated instruments
Piano

Procedure for submitting an application
No procedure, the laureates are chosen by the piano teaching staff

Amount
Around $2000

Number of grants awarded
1

Selection criteria
Recording of the recital (end of doctorate)

Deadline
Winter

Resource person
Valérie Rousseau-Parent

Distinctive features
None

Disciplines / associated instruments
Flute, clarinet, oboe and bassoon

Amount
Variable

Nombre de bourses attribuées
3

Selection criteria

• Be enrolled fulltime in an undergraduate- or graduate-level performance program
• Present at an audition a contemporary piece of music written after 1980

Deadline
Late January

Procedure for submitting an application
Send in your full name, the name of your program, your instrument and the work performed to the scholarships technician, Valérie Rousseau-Parent.

Resource person
Valérie Rousseau-Parent

Distinctive features
Aucune

Disciplines / associated instruments

Digital music / Composition and sound creation

Amount

$1,000

Number of grants awarded

1 per year

Selection criteria

Quality of academic and/or artistic work

Deadline

None

Procedure for submitting an application

Students in digital music automatically qualify for consideration. There is no application to submit, and the award is conferred by decision of the teaching staff.

Resource persons

The heads of the digital music programs

Distinctive features

The Marcelle Award is named in honor of Marcelle Deschênes, who founded the Faculty of Music’s electroacoustic composition program in 1980.

Disciplines / associated instruments
Orchestre de l’Université de Montréal (OUM)

Amount
$1,000 (minimum)

Number of grants awarded
Variable

Selection criteria

• Be enrolled fulltime in an undergraduate or graduate performance program
• Perform before the concerto competition jury

Deadline
Late October

Procedure for submitting an application
File the required documents on the Faculty of Music’s upload site, in the folder Concours de concerto de l’OUM – Prix Peter et Mary Jane White

Resource person
Valérie Rousseau-Parent

Distinctive features
None

Disciplines / associated instruments
Jazz

Amount
$2,000

Number of grants awarded
3

Selection criteria

• Be enrolled full time in the final semester of a bachelor’s in jazz performance
• Have demonstrated outstanding qualities as a musician throughout the academic career
• Have participated in a significant way in the Université de Montréal Big Band  (minimum 4 semesters) and presented a remarkable musical performance destining the candidate for a professional career

Deadline
Spring

Procedure for submitting an application
No procedure; grant recipients are chosen by the head of the jazz program

Resource person
Valérie Rousseau-Parent

Distinctive features
None

Disciplines/associated instruments
All

Amount
$1,000

Number of grants awarded
Variable

Selection criteria

• Have completed at least one year of study at Université de Montréal
• Be enrolled full-time for the current academic year in a bachelor’s or graduate program
• Have obtained an average of at least 3.7 for the bachelor’s degree and 3.9 at the graduate level
• Not having been a winner of the Faculty of Music excellence grant (funding agreements) in the month of May
• For financial support: demonstrate, using the form, a financial position requiring assistance
  
  

Deadline
October

Procedure for submitting an application
File the required documents on the Faculty of Music’s upload site

• The registration form
• A curriculum vitae
• A copy of the last transcript (may be unoffical if it comes from UdeM)
• A letter of recommendation sent directly by e-mail to Valérie Rousseau-Parent

For financial support, it is also important to add the following two documents:

• The financial declaration form
• A cover letter describing very explicitly the candidate’s financial status (in French)

Resource person
Valérie Rousseau-Parent

Distinctive features
None

Disciplines/associated instruments
Strings

Amount
$2,500 (minimum)

Number of grants awarded
1

Selection criteria

• Be enrolled full-time in a cello or viola performance program
• Be an outstanding student

Deadline
Autumn

Procedure for submitting an application
No procedure; grant winners are chosen by the strings program head

Resource person
Valérie Rousseau-Parent

Distinctive features
None

Disciplines/associated instruments
Winds/Bassoon

Amount
$1,000 (minimum)

Number of grants awarded
Variable

Selection criteria

• Be enrolled full-time in bassoon in an undergraduate or graduate study program
• Have an excellent academic record
  

Deadline
Autumn

Procedure for submitting an application
No procedure; grant recipients are chosen by the winds program head

Resource person
Valérie Rousseau-Parent

Distinctive features
None

Disciplines / associated instrumentsOpera singing

Amount
$2,500

Number of grants awarded
Variable

Selection criteria

• Be enrolled full-time in a classical singing performance program
• Have demonstrated outstanding potential in opera singing at an entrance audition for the program
• Be preparing for a professional career in opera singing
• Possess an above-average academic record

Deadline
Autumn

Procedure for submitting an application
No procedure; grant recipients are chosen by the head of singing programs

Resource person
Valérie Rousseau-Parent

Distinctive features
None

Disciplines/associated instruments
Strings

Amount
$5,000

Number of grants awarded
Variable

Selection criteria

• Be enrolled full-time in an undergraduate or graduate level strings performance program

Deadline
Autumn

Procedure for submitting an application
No procedure; grant recipients are chosen by the strings program head

Resource person
Valérie Rousseau-Parent

Distinctive features
None

Disciplines/associated instruments
Performance, musicology and composition

Amount
$2,500

Number of grants awarded
Variable

Selection criteria

• Be enrolled full time in an undergraduate or graduate program in performance, musicology or composition

Deadline
Autumn

Procedure for submitting an application
No procedure, grant recipients are chosen by the heads of performance, musicology and composition programs

Resource person
Valérie Rousseau-Parent

Distinctive features
None

Disciplines/associated instruments
Violin

Amount
Variable

Number of grants awarded
Variable

Selection criteria

• Be enrolled full time at the Faculty of Music in a violin performance program
• Have been selected to participate in the Orchestre de l’Université de Montréal during one of the semesters of the year in progress
• Have demonstrated outstanding qualities as an instrumentalist
• Possess an above-average academic record

Deadline
Autumn

Procedure for submitting an application
No procedure; grant recipients are chosen by the head of the strings program

Resource person
Valérie Rousseau-Parent

Distinctive features
None

Disciplines/associated instruments
Jazz

Amount
Variable

Number of grants awarded
Variable

Selection criteria

• Be enrolled fulltime in one of the jazz performance or jazz composition programs
• Demonstrate outstanding qualities as an instrumentalist
• Have an above-average academic record
• Have a financial situation requiring assistance

Deadline
Late October

Procedure for submitting an application
No procedure; grant recipients are chosen by the head of the jazz program

Resource person
Valérie Rousseau-Parent

Distinctive features
None

Disciplines/associated instruments
Musicology or ethnomusicology

Amount
Variable

Number of grants awarded
Variable

Selection criteria

• Be enrolled full time in a master’s or doctoral program with a research subject in musicology or ethnomusicology related to the following theme: Music in Québec
• Have an excellent academic record
  

Deadline
Mid-January

Procedure for submitting an application
File the required documents on the Faculty of Music’s upload site, in the folder Maryvonne-Kendergi – musicologie

Form
exemple

Resource person
Valérie Rousseau-Parent

Distinctive features
None

Disciplines/associated instruments
Early music performance

Amount
Variable

Number of grants awarded
Variable

Selection criteria

• Be enrolled full time in a graduate program
• Be working on a research or creative research project related to the performance of early music (project related or not to the master’s thesis or Ph.D. thesis)

Deadline
Early winter

Procedure for submitting an application
File the required documents on the Faculty of Music’s upload site, in the folder Fonds de soutien à la recherche en performance de la musique ancienne (étudiants)

Personne-ressource
Valérie Rousseau-Parent

Resource person
None

Disciplines/associated instruments
All

Amount
Variable

Number of grants awarded
Variable

Selection criteria
On request

Deadline
None; at any time

Procedure for submitting an application
No procedure; ask your program head or a vice-dean

Personne-ressource
Valérie Rousseau-Parent

Resource person
None

Disciplines / associated instruments
All

Amount
1 master’s grant of $8,000
1 doctoral grant of $12,000

Number of grants awarded
2

Selection criteria

• Be enrolled fulltime in a master’s or doctorate in music ‒ musicology or ethnomusicology option

Deadline
Mid-January

Procedure for submitting an application
File the required documents on the Faculty of Music’s upload site, in the Claude Gingras folder

Resource person
Valérie Rousseau-Parent

Distinctive features
None

Disciplines / associated instruments
Piano

Amount
Variable

Number of grants awarded
Variable

Selection criteria

• Be enrolled full time in a graduate piano performance program
• Be in a precarious financial situation
• Demonstrate perseverance during the years at university

Deadline
Autumn

Procedure for submitting an application
No procedure; grant recipients are chosen by the head of the piano program

Resource person
Valérie Rousseau-Parent

Distinctive features
None

Disciplines / associated instruments
Performance, composition or musicology

Amount
Variable

Number of grants awarded
Variable

Selection criteria

• Be enrolled fulltime in one of the undergraduate or graduate performance, composition or musicology programs
• Have an above-average academic record
• Be in a precarious financial situation

Deadline
Autumn

Procedure for submitting an application
No procedure; grant recipients are chosen by the program heads in performance, composition and musicology

Resource person
Valérie Rousseau-Parent

Distinctive features
None