Sharyn Byer was a professional musician, teacher and mentor whose love of music inspired her students to pursue their own life-long journey of musical excellence. She was truly a music pioneer as one of the original instructors at the Institute of Fine Arts at Columbia, and one of the first musicians to digitize their sheet music. In honor of her contribution and leadership, the Columbia Institute of Fine Arts was...

TED (Technology Entertainment and Design) is a series of world renowned conferences based on the mission to disseminate "ideas worth spreading". Past speakers have included Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, and several Nobel Prize winners. The TEDx Talks are locally organized events based on the spirit of TED and designed to foster dialogue at the community level. Here, at a TEDx event in Asheville, North Carolina, classical pianist Sam Haywood...

Hugh Sung interviews cellist Matt Haimowitz and discusses his work with the Uccello ensemble to present "Angel Heart, A Music Storybook" in performance, on CD, and on tour. Matt Haimowitz is a pioneer of reading music digitally with iPads and the AirTurn wireless page turning pedals. http://www.angelheartmusicstorybook.comhttps://www.facebook.com/cellistmatthaimovitz/

Chicago Singer Songwriter, Dave Tamkin, is currently living in Boulder, Colorado. He has created his own unique style of rhythmic-acoustic rock. His shows vary from intimate solo acoustic performances to a full band experience encapsulating a mixture of personal lyrics and skilled songwriting set against a high-energy percussive backbone. I was first introduced to AirTurn while I was visiting Brightwood Music in Nederland, CO. They had the OnSong App set...

Legendary rock keyboardist Jordan Rudess, best known for his role in the progressive metal band Dream Theater, is endorsing the BT-105 Bluetooth hands free page turner for the iPad by AirTurn, Inc. The Juilliard-trained Rudess is renowned for his use of cutting edge technologies to craft and perform his music, having recorded 59 albums to date, and was recently voted by MusicRadar as "the best keyboardist of all time". "Being an iPad madman, I'm able to ditch...

Matt DavisJenny Q Chai is an active pianist specializing in contemporary music. She has premiered numerous works by such composers as Nils Vigeland, John Slover, Ashley Fu-Tsun Wang, Frederick Rzewski, among others. Ms. Chai introduced the concept of the prepared piano to Chinese audiences with the world premier of z"Mallet Dance" by John Slover at the Shanghai Concert Hall. Her performance of Chen Yi's "Duo Ye was" also well received by...

Violinist David Kim, Concertmaster of The Philadelphia Orchestra, shares some great stories about his "D.K. moments", the hassles of paper music, and his decision to go digital with his iPad for reading sheet music and his AirTurn BT-105 for turning pages hands free. Visit David Kim's website at www.davidkimviolin.com.

When I was a youngster, I dabbled with a bunch of different instruments. I tried my hand at playing a little guitar, fooled around with the harmonica, took some lessons on the french horn and even studied the violin semi-seriously for a few years. Frankly, I stuck with the piano because it was the easiest instrument to make a decent sound out of, and I was super lazy about practicing....