This year’s presentation would be again, from the piano, discussing improvisation, performing Piano Puzzlers (a musical quiz show he founded on Performance Today Radio) and discussing how science inspires his musical thinking, entitled: What's the Idea? — How science inspires my musical thinking. A Brief Bio: In addition to composing, Bruce Adolphe holds several positions concurrently: founder and director of the Meet the Music! family concert series and resident lecturer at The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, creator of public radio’s weekly Piano Puzzler on Performance Today, and founder and creative director of The Learning Maestros. The author of three books on music, Mr. Adolphe has taught at Yale, The Juilliard School, and New York University, and was recently appointed composer-in-residence and advisor in music research at the Brain and Creativity Institute in Los Angeles. This past fall, his book The Mind's Ear: Exercises for Improving the Musical Imagination was published by Oxford University Press.