The Master of Music degree in Collaboration, Curation and Creative Performance (hereafter MMus C3) is unique in Canada and builds on proven strengths in Laurier’s Faculty of Music undergraduate programs in Performance, Composition, and Integrated Musical Arts. This four-term full-time master’s program includes coursework, an experiential placement, and a Major Artistic project.

This degree will provide performers and creators of music with the education and skills for a lifelong career in music and the performing arts. By focusing equally on collaboration, creation, and curation, students will learn to be sector-leading musicians and presenters, able to predict and respond to the needs, shifts, and complexities of a multi-cultural, multi- and interdisciplinary Canada. A key question students will answer is “who (or why) are you as an artist?”

The program recognizes the limitations of the typical language used to describe these musical sub-disciplines, which is often narrow. We intend this program to be inclusive of diverse musical cultures, instruments, traditions and genres. The collaborative nature of the program and its objectives include considering Indigenous ways of knowing as well as cultural understandings of music’s place in society and the arts community.