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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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.
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.
Experience world-class performances by the next generation of performing and media artists at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM)! The college's spring 2026 schedule of major events is now available; tickets are on sale now through the CCM Box Office.
Maura Kesterson spends her days, and most of her nights, sewing away in a space underneath Patricia Corbett Theater.
“Pretty much anything you can do in the costume department, I’ve done,” Kesterson said. A lifelong seamstress and performer, Kesterson was crafty enough in her career choices to land her at the University of Cincinnati, designing all the colorful costumes for a grand opera, a retelling of the charming story of Cinderella.
Kesterson is a master’s degree student studying costume design and technology at UC’s College-Conservatory of Music.
One doesn’t need to search hard for a common thread uniting accomplished, Philadelphia-based professionals in the business, academic, music, athletics, and medical fields: a shared affinity for the University of Cincinnati.