Hello! I’m a prospective grad student interested in both voice performance/opera and composition. How is the performer-composer program at CIM? Does it prepare just as well for a career as a stand-alone performance or composition degree, or does it make you a “jack of all trades and master of none?” (no pun intended, haha) How are the classes similar/different from the traditional degrees? I want to be as hire-able and well-rounded as possible. Should I look into it, or would I be better off getting a voice degree and studying comp independently on the side? And overall, how’s the opera program at CIM? Thanks! 
I would get into email contact with someone on the faculty to confirm, but the wording of the program keeps talking about “instrumental” skill and never says “instrument or voice” or anything like that. Doesn’t mean they don’t take vocalists, but I would want to confirm whether they do to begin with. I’m also going to guess given the nature of the program that they probably have a bias towards pianists or violinists, as those seem to be the two most common instruments that “virtuoso-composers” have played historically. I don’t actually know really anything about the program, just providing you my immediate speculative thoughts.
I find the link between composing and instrument to be strange. Composers are not limited to writing music for the instruments they themselves play. The focus on developing repertoire for one’s own instrument sounds extremely limiting for the composer,if not the instrumentalist. ( I disagree with the idea that there would be bias toward violinists and pianists above._
There is no mention of vocal performers. If you find out that voice is indeed part of the program, do you really want to focus on writing music for voice only?
I also didn’t like the text on the site that discusses pleasing both traditional audiences and those who enjoy new and emerging composers. This program seems very much geared to the marketplace. That’s great for some. In composition it can be problematic.