Urban Nocturnes is delighted to be back performing at the Arts at the Rocks series at Desert Hills Presbyterian Church. Karen, Christopher, Melita, Viviana, and Erin will feature a variety of works for strings and winds. The program begins with a Quintet by 18th century Austrian composer Franz Xaver Süssmayr. This graceful and well-mannered piece is immediately contrasted by an innovative set of 7 Dances for Flute, Clarinet and Cello by living composer Brian Raphael Nabors. The second part of the concert opens with an arrangement for violin and viola of Schubert's thrillingly sinister Lied "Der Erlkönig", followed by the reflective and playful Sonatine Modale for Flute and Clarinet by French composer Charles Koechlin. The program concludes with the String Trio No. 1 in A Minor, a substantive work that is by turns impassioned and jocular, by Post-romantic German composer Max Reger.

This is a free concert.