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In becoming a government corporation, on March 31, 2007, the Conservatoire entered a major modernization period. It acquired administrative better suited to its mission, while preserving its basic values : intensive and individualized training in the performing arts, and the continuum of music education, from the pre-collegial to master's level. The Conservatoire remains a national institution serving a large part of Québec.

Conservatoire de musique de Montréal The Conservatoire de musique de Montréal is located in the centre of a metropolis renowned for its ambience. The city enjoys a dynamic musical life, with many orchestras, an opera company, and several festivals. A few minutes away from the foot of Mount Royal, the Conservatoire is also bordered by Saint-Denis Street, one of the Montreal's lively arteries, and is near several theatres, cinemas, concert halls, museums, and art galleries. The Conservatoire offers two streams--performance and composition--and has 65 studios and classrooms. The faculty is made up of 64 teachers who are, for the most part, very active on the Québec and international music scenes, and the school is host to some 230 students from the first to fifth cycles. Also within the establishment are studios reserved for organ, harp, harpsichord, electro-acoustic music, and percussion specialists, as well as a library. The Conservatoire also has its own performance venues : a multimedia room, a recital hall, and a 225-seat concert hall.

Conservatoire d'art dramatique de Montréal The Conservatoire d'art dramatique de Montréal has been housed in various downtown locations since 1954 and, since 2001, has made its home in the Plateau Mont-Royal neighbourhood, on Henri-Julien Avenue, in a building it shares with the Conservatoire de musique, among others. Available to its students and staff are five studios and classrooms, a costume workshop, a set workshop, a language and diction lab, a dubbing studio, a radio studio, a television and film studio, and a consultation and lending library with some 20,000 documents in various collections. In addition, the Conservatoire boasts its own 226-seat theatre. In accordance with the current system, the students--around 10 each year--follow a full-time, three-year performance-oriented program equivalent to the bachelor's level. In addition, each summer, students completing their second year take an intensive internship in street theatre in France, through a partnership with the Office franco-québécois pour la jeunesse.

Conservatoire d'art dramatique et de musique

This large black box with variable geometry is ideal for creating, as it allows different configurations: Italian, face to face round, cabaret. A fixed hanging grid covers the entire ceiling. A German-style belt dressing room. The chairs are arranged on passable. This flexibility meets the needs of both theater and dance.