Storms, spirits and leaping lepidoptera… there’s definitely something in the air! In Airborne Alchemy, violinist Alyssa Park, clarinetist Brian Walsh, cellist Timothy Loo, and pianist Nic Gerpe perform fantastic flights of fancy including Almeida Prado’s Pana Pana II, Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Lachen Verlernt, Juhi Bansal’s Sand, Wind, Thorn and Paul Moravec’s Pulitzer-Prize winning Tempest Fantasy. The quartet will be joined by special guest narrator Jane Kaczmarek.

Esa-Pekka Salonen – Lachen Verlernt (2001) – Solo Violin

Juhi Bansal – Sand, Wind, Thorn (2021) – Violin, Cello, Piano

Almeida Prado – Pana-Paná II (1981) – Clarinet, Cello, Piano

1. Morpho Didius
2. Caligo Memnon

III. Dismorphia Spio

1. Pierella Nereis
2. Heliconius Erato

• Intermission     – 

Paul Moravec – Tempest Fantasy (2003) – Violin, Clarinet, Cello, Piano [with Jane Kaczmarek, narrator]

1. Ariel
2. Prospero
3. Caliban
4. Sweet Airs
5. Fantasia