1- Piccolo3- 1st Flute3- 2nd Flute1- 1st Oboe1- 2nd Oboe3- 1st Clarinet3- 2nd Clarinet3- 3rd Clarinet2- Bb Bass Clarinet1- 1st Bassoon1- 2nd Bassoon1- 1st Alto Saxopone1- 2nd Alto Saxophone1- Tenor Saxophone1- Baritone Saxophone2- 1st Bb Trumpet3- 2nd Bb Trumpet1- 1st French Horn1- 2nd French Horn1- 3rd French Horn1- 1st Trombone1- 2nd Trombone1- 3rd Trombone2- Euphonium3- Tuba1- Piano1- TimpaniPercussion I:CrotalesCrash CymbalTam-tamPercussion II:Snare DrumTambourineWind ChimesChimesPercussion III:Orchestra BellsBass DrumWood BlockPercussion IV:VibraphoneSuspended CymbalTriangle

Fantasy for Piano and Wind Symphony was inspired in part by the memoirs of the aviator, writer, andpoet, Antoine Saint-Exupery. In other parts, by various stories told by pilots and adventurous souls who I've encountered personally. The piece uses the concept of the "Fantasie"; a form which gives way to the composer's imagination, freely wandering musically and thematically, and connects it to the experience of flying. During the Romantic period, the archetype of "The Wanderer," which often went in tandem with the Fantasie, represented a person who felt a stranger wherever he went. The theme of the "wanderer" can be heard in the first solo entrance of the piano. It returns again in the secondmovement, transformed into something more contemplative. In this piece I attempt to capture not only the exhilaration and profound beauty of soaring through the heavens, but also the loneliness that may haunt someone who is never in one place for long. A pilot must have tremendous trust in his instruments and craft. Because any of these things could fail fatally, the contemplation of life and death is also a theme in this piece. The second movement in particular evokes the unease of flying over a large body of water at night. The slow, deliberate beginning of the movement feels as though it is suspended in the air, only drifting, as an ascending motive makes gradual entrances. The ascending motive is then juxtaposed with the Lux Aeterna Gregorian chant from the Requiem Mass (played by the piano), almost like a prayer for light to scatter the strangely inviting darkness. The low brass come in, roaring to depict the depth of the water, an abyss that could swallow you instantly. Throughout the piece there are many images and moods that I wish to leave the listener to interpret. This is a fantasy after all. Perhaps the mind of the pilot is wandering too, yearning for some imagined home, or remembering a love from the past. One thing is for certain though: that at the end, when the Lux Aeterna takes its final form as a resplendent fanfare, the light does not merely illuminate the darkness, but shatters all fear.