Gary McPherson is the Ormond Professor and Director of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music at the University of Melbourne. He has served as President of the Australian and International Societies for Music Education, and has published over 150 articles and book chapters, and edited 6 books for Oxford University Press, including The Child as Musician: A Handbook of Musical Development and a new volume to be released this month entitled Musical Prodigies: Interpretations from Psychology, Education, Musicology and Ethnomusicology.