Welcome to your next stage. Tomorrow's arts leaders and luminaries get their start at UC's nationally ranked and internationally renowned College-Conservatory of Music.
A preeminent institution for the performing and media arts, CCM offers nearly 120 possible majors, along with a wide variety of pre-collegiate and post-graduate programs. The synergy created by housing CCM within a comprehensive public university gives the college its unique character and defines its objective: to educate and inspire the whole artist and scholar for positions on the world stage.
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30
weeks of public events
75+
ticketed performances
175+
major events
CCM is dedicated to fostering a supportive environment for all students to thrive, while working with the UC Accessibility Resources office to ensure students with disabilities have full and equal access to academic opportunities through essential support and accommodations.
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Our students learn by doing. CCM produces more performing and media arts events than any other organization in the state of Ohio. Our students are involved in every production, both on stage and behind-the-scenes
Our mid-sized, affordable city is home to a dedicated audience of arts patrons, providing students with unique opportunities to collaborate with some of the nation’s leading arts and media organizations
CCM offers the benefit of a comprehensive arts conservatory within the setting of a comprehensive research university, allowing students to enjoy unparalleled production facilities at a lower tuition rate.
one of this country’s leading conservatories
The New York Times
November 10, 2026
For University of Cincinnati alumna Allyson West, fostering the city’s film scene has become her life’s work. Her latest venture rescued and transformed the Mariemont Theatre, an old local cinema, through a collaboration with her nonprofit, Cindependent, and tons of community support.
November 5, 2026
Clifford Pleatman, MD, Med ’81, says his earliest memory is singing La Bohѐme in “fake” Italian at age three. “My passion is music,” he says. “Did that really happen? I think so and to this day, I certainly love La Bohѐme.”
November 3, 2026
The Gerda Lissner Foundation presents "CCM Opera: Then. Now. Next" on at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 15, 2026, in a special performance at The Greene Space at WQXR Studios in New York City. Presented as part of the Lissner Recital Series, the performance will be recorded live and streamed on the Foundation's YouTube channel.