Guadalupe López Íñiguez

What are the aspects that impact on talent development? Is it just a matter of having a strongly supportive environment (nurture)? Is it a question of innate abilities or inborn gifts (nature)? Is it having good chances in life (luck)? Or is t a combination of all this or part of it? This blog post introduces the seminal contribution of Françoys Gagné to the field of giftedness and talent through its Differentiated Model of Giftedness and Talent (DMGT).

This blog post briefly summarises various positions against and in favour of giftedness in music and other domains, and critically discusses some of those positions in regards what influences gifted individuals’ talent development.

This blog post addresses the various specialist systems for talent development in music available worldwide to underage gifted/talented children and adolescents.

Caring for children gifted for music is both a moral and political endeavor, and we all are responsible to care for and about them—but do we actually do it? If not, why? And if yes, can we do better?