Talent Development Conference 2018 reflections

Read blogs from our Theme Experts and our CEO Vanessa Reed

Thank you to everyone who joined us at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama for our Talent Development Conference – a free day of expert discussions, presentations and networking opportunities.

Our CEO Vanessa Reed has written a blog post reflecting on the issues raised and discussed throughout the day which you can read here, and alongside this are blog posts from our three Theme Experts on the day:

Bridging the Gap – written by Urban Development’s Zakiya Bale,
Beyond Education? – written by Debra King from Brighter Sound
Music Cities – written by Sound Diplomacy’s Rollo Maschietto

You can read all the Conference blog posts on the PRS Foundation website here and remember you can continue the conversation on Twitter using the hashtag #DevelopTalent.

Also, we have posted photos from the day on our Facebook page here – please do like and share!

Other good reads on talent development from PRS Foundation grantees and partners:

A New Home for New Music in South London – Head of Creative Programmes at The Albany, Rachel Nelken, introduces their new way of working with musicians following their successful Open Fund application

Securing Our Talent Pipeline – UK Music report on the growing evidence of a looming crisis in the music industry’s talent pipeline

Short Survey…

Please do let us know what you thought of this year’s conference by taking our very short survey and help us to continue to improve the conference for 2019. Take the survey here.