Fantasie for Saxophone Quartet

My Fantasie for Saxophone Quartet is a single movement work that is inspired by the cosmos and space travel, This piece explores the relationship and interplay of color, texture and nuance between the four instruments. Like the Fantasias of the Elizabethan virginalist composers of the 17th century, my work is also improvisational in nature. The piece freely develops and unfolds melodically and rhythmically texturally and coloristically through a variety of different sections. As the piece progresses it builds in intensity leading to and ending with a joyful, virtousic coda.