Alice Ann O’Neill SC

A record number of Suzuki teachers, researchers and graduate students gathered on May 27 and 28, 2010, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the International Research Symposium on Talent Education. Dr. Robert Duke, Professor of Music and Human Learning from the University of Texas at Austin, was the graduate student seminar facilitator and keynote speaker. The symposium included discussions of research in progress, presentations of current research, and time to socialize and discuss research and statistical methods.

In an effort to develop more involvement of graduate students in Talent Education research, a graduate student research seminar was…

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Suzuki teachers and parents, and many researchers gathered in Minneapolis May 22 and 23, 2008, to learn more about research and further the mission of the International Research Symposium on Talent Education. The number of participants at the Ninth IRSTE sessions has grown exponentially since the symposium became a pre-conference workshop at the previous IRSTE in 2006. At the ninth symposium we discussed research topics related to Talent Education and ways to develop research questions into projects. We discovered various ways to test crossing the mid-line, imitation in learning, and how sleep can affect learning and practicing for musicians. We also learned about a Suzuki program for at-risk students in New Jersey. Dr. Laurel Trainor, professor from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, gave a keynote address presenting an overview of her research with babies and children learning music.

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