Virtuosos are human beings who exhibit exceptional performance in their field of activity. However, virtuosity is an under-studied field of human behavior: little is known about the processes involved to become a virtuoso, and in what they distinguish themselves from normal performers.
The on-going Virtuoso project attempts at studying virtuosity from a constructivist approach. Virtuoso is also a system allowing automatic generation of virtuosity, in the field of jazz (bebop) improvisation. Its goal is to exhibit professional-level human performance, and possibly better.