My third major piano solo after Five Piano Pieces (2010) and Radium Butterfly (2018).

As with all my solo piano music, the Fantasy began as a series of improvisations on different textures and harmonies, particularly the themes found in “Bells” and “Four (or more) Types of Dissonance.”

The Fantasy is a deeply personal work for me, one of the ways I worked out my grief over a major life choice that recast my sense of self and where I saw my future developing.

On its surface, those who know my previous music will notice many more major seventh chords than ever before, used here for its double-edged sword quality of sparkling beauty and painful dissonance. I also rely more on structured improvisation than before, though I may go back and compose out those passages at some point.