Conservatoire de musique et d'art dramatique du Québec

The Conservatoire de musique et d'art dramatique du Québec (French pronunciation: [kɔ̃sɛʁvatwaʁ də myzik e daʁ dʁamatik dy kebɛk], CMADQ) is a public network of nine state-subsidised schools offering higher education in music and theatre in Quebec, Canada.

The organization was established in 1942 as a branch of the Ministère des Affaires culturelles du Québec by the government of Quebec during the premiership of Maurice Duplessis.

This report was presented to the Quebec government by Champagne and conductor Wilfrid Pelletier with the hopes of establishing Canadian institutes of higher learning for music.

[1] Originally the CMADQ was only concerned with musical education, but Pelletier felt that Quebec needed conservatoires for studies in theatre as well.

However, he won the ear of Premier Maurice Duplessis and ultimately his influence led to the establishment of the CMADQ's first school for the theatre arts, the Conservatoire d'art dramatique du Québec à Montréal in 1954 under the directorship of Jan Doat.