Advanced College Diploma - Music Industry Arts and Performance (6450) (Offered at Performing Arts Centre Campus)

Program Description Centennial College's Music Industry Arts and Performance (MIAP) program will turn students' passion for popular, world or Indigenous music into an exciting and lasting career in a wide range of music-related fields.

This unique advanced music diploma program, offered at the School of Communications, Media, Arts and Design, will take three years to complete. During this time, Music Industry Arts and Performance course work will help students to: • Nurture musicality and creativity; • Become aware of a variety of music cultures; • Build knowledge of music-related technologies; • Develop business and entrepreneurial skills.

Professional musicians will mentor students during private lessons and ensemble rehearsals. This hands-on experience will then be further enhanced by a six-week field placement in the final semester that will provide practical experience in the real world.

In the third year of this college Music program, students will choose a stream of study that will allow for specialization. They may join either the music creation and business stream or the music creation and technology stream.

As a graduate of the Music Industry Arts and Performance program, students will be a versatile, culturally-aware musician and singer with the technological and business savvy necessary to work and make money in the music industry of today and tomorrow.