Adventus Interactive is a Canadia software company specializing in music learning Software. It was founded by James Mullen in 1996 and is based in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

The company s initial purpose was to make music learning software which made use of the ability of electronic keyboards and other MIDI instruments to communicate with a computer. Many Adventus Interactive titles use a musical keyboard connected to a computer. Adventus first released Piano Suite Premier in 1998, which assisted students learning to read music, play the piano, and compose. Piano Suite Premier later evolved into Piano Suite Online, which connected students on the Internet with instructors for Live lessons. While online learning tools using Video teleconference technology were already widely available, Piano Suite Online was tailored for remote teaching of music.

Late in 2004, Adventus Interactive released Children s Music Journey, an animated interactive program which taught young children how to read music, play the piano with both hands, and compose. In 2005, a study was launched to check whether this software can increase rates of learning math, science, and reading, just as traditional instrumental instruction does. [http://www.keystoachievement.org/home/D_whatis/top_01.html] This study will use the software to teach music to students in the USA and Canada, from kindergarten to the second grade. It is being funded by the Keys to Achievement Foundation and monitored by James Catterall, Education expert from the University of California, Los Angeles. [http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/pages/catterall.]

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