PianoDisc selected for Aspen Music Festival

This year, about 1,000 students are converging on the world-renowned Aspen Music Festival to learn from top professionals in the music field. And, for students and teachers alike, PianoDisc is the teaching tool of choice.

For nearly 40 summers, the Aspen Music Festival has given classical music fans the chance to see their favorite artists perform live in an open-air setting. It also has given thousands of music students the opportunity to take master classes with celebrated classical musicians before performing in front of festival audiences.

For several years now, PianoDisc--the international leader in computerized piano music-reproduction--has provided musicians with a way to prepare and refine their techniques in class and before performances.

The PianoDisc system allows a musician to precisely record and replay musical performances on an acoustic piano. With 127 levels of sound reproduction per piano key, the PDS-128 Plus system can be installed on virtually any acoustic piano. As such, PianoDisc allows teachers and students at the Aspen Music Festival to try out new musical concepts in classrooms and rehearsal halls then record ideas that work.

This is particularly important, for instance, in composition classes taught by Julliard's Michael Czajkowski, who uses a PianoDisc system during the Aspen Music Festival.

PianoDisc--enhanced by PianoDigital, which can synthesize the simultaneous sound of 80 different musical instruments--also gives students a better sense of what their musical compositions will sound like when performed by bands and orchestras.

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