Application strategy of metacognition in professional music education

Studying branches of music at conservatoire as an art school is demanding talent, personal attributes, but also the intellectual level. This work represents metacognition as a method to developmental potential and so enables the valuable cognition in various areas, including the professional preparation of future musicians and music teachers. The education at conservatoire is specific in many aspects, accordingly there is briefly mentioned the issue of educational presumptions (musical abilities and their development, components of musical talent and importance of teaching style). Main attention is paid to development of thinking skills and to another cognitive activities with the aim to adopt particular metacognitive processes. Programme of Instrumental Enrichment by R. Feuerstein is presented as a stimulation programme intended for systematic development of cognitive functions. Author interprets deficits in the area of learning and offers "tools" to overcome them. The target of intervention is to remove causes of school failure by eliminating undesirable learning dispositions