How to apply

Fall 2022 admissions

Applications open: October 1, 2021

Application deadline: March 1, 2022

Admissions process overview

Application deadline is March 1.

Step 1: Complete Concordia's online admissions application

For Music and Jazz applicants:
Step 2: Prepare your Music Department Admissions Package
Step 3: Prepare your audition video

For Electroacoustic Studies applicants:
Step 2: Prepare your Music Department Admissions Package
Step 3: Curate your portfolio and add it to your Admissions Package

Step 4: Submit materials to your Admissions Package

Step 1: Complete Concordia's online admissions application

Already a Concordia student?

Get started: complete Concordia's online application

For Music & Jazz applicants:

Step 2: Prepare your admissions package

We need to know more about you than the university application provides. Our Music admissions website will ask you to:

Provide information about your musical background
Complete a basic theory screening test
Take theory and ear-training placement tests
Upload a video audition (for applicants to the Major in Music and Specialization in Jazz Studies)
- To apply to the Minor in Music, contact the Music Department (Music@Concordia.ca) after you have been accepted to Concordia to a non-Music major.

Be sure to review the video guidelines below and then begin your music admissions process.

Theory tests for Music applicants

Theory tests for Jazz applicants

Step 3: Prepare for your video audition

Guidelines for Music applicants

Guidelines for Jazz applicants

For Electroacoustic Studies applicants:

Step 2: Prepare your Music Department Admissions Package

We need to know more about you than the university application provides. Please take your time in completing the application and pay particular attention to the letter of intent section regarding your interest and motivation to succeed in this program.

Our Music admissions website will ask you to:

Provide information about your background, in particular your:
- Music and sound interests and activities
- Technical (familiarity with software and hardware)
- Professional/work experience (if applicable)
- Other arts activities
Define a list of terms
Provide a letter of intent
Complete a basic theory screening test
Take theory placement tests
Upload a portfolio

Step 3: Curate your portfolio (Electroacoustics)

Read the portfolio guidelines below and then begin your electroacoustics admissions process.

Portfolio guidelines for electroacoustics applicants

Important guidelines

The portfolio is the most important part of your application to the Electroacoustic Studies program, and the committee listens to your portfolio in great detail. The works must be technically correct, normalized and accurate. When reviewing your portfolio the committee will pay attention to the following:

Is the work simply sampled from low-quality mp3 samples?
Is the work made from carefully selected soundscape recordings?
Does the work use off-the-shelf DAW processing plugins in standard or clichéd ways?
Does the work show careful attention to all of the sounds, all the time?

Select your best, most representative examples of creative sound work that show your breadth and depth of interest in the field. Electroacoustic compositions and or sound art demonstrating sound generation and manipulation techniques are the most suitable for this application. The committee looks for the amount and quality of sound design being done, the kinds of manipulation, the creative ways in which the sound is put together.

Submit 3 to 5 electroacoustic compositions and/or sound design material

Duration can be 2-5 minutes for each
For each example, there is space to give the
Label your works clearly and provide context in the online admissions form:
- Give the title, duration, program/production notes, and your intention in creating the work (for a video, for coursework, for the portfolio etc.)
- Identify the hardware/software you used, and the source sounds and processes
- Indicate if you recorded your own sounds for the work
- Tell us if the work was a collarborative piece, and if so, identify your role

To get an idea of suitable material, research and listen to examples of electroacoustic and/or acousmatic music online.

Please contact us if you would like additional guidance before submitting your admissions form.

SPECIAL NOTE: Please do not, for any reason, send your portfolio files via email or web file transfer services. ONLY use the upload site provided above.

Step 4: Submit your materials

Submit your portfolio to Slideroom.

Department of Music

Department of Music

How to apply

Fall 2022 admissions

Admissions process overview

Step 1: Complete Concordia's online admissions application

For new applicants

Already a Concordia student?

Other faculties

Concordia students enrolled in the Faculty of Fine Arts

For Music & Jazz applicants:

Step 2: Prepare your admissions package

Theory tests for Music applicants

Theory tests for Jazz applicants

Step 3: Prepare for your video audition

Guidelines for Music applicants

Guidelines for Jazz applicants

Jazz Voice

Jazz Bass, Guitar and Piano, Vibraphone/Marimba

Drum Set

For Electroacoustic Studies applicants:

Step 2: Prepare your Music Department Admissions Package

Step 3: Curate your portfolio (Electroacoustics)

Portfolio guidelines for electroacoustics applicants

Important guidelines

Submit 3 to 5 electroacoustic compositions and/or sound design material

Step 4: Submit your materials