Community Calendar

Illuminare, the professional choir of the Crystal Coast Music Initiative (CCMI), presents Beyond the Veil on Sunday, November 1, 2026, at 7 p.m. at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 215 Ann Street in Beaufort. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Admission is free, and reservations are not required.

Presented on All Saints’ Day, the concert explores loss, remembrance, consolation, and hope through expressive choral music. The centerpiece is John Rutter’s Requiem. For this work, Illuminare will be joined by the St. Paul’s Parish Choir and a chamber orchestra.

Additional choral selections will deepen the evening’s reflection on memory, mortality, and peace. The program welcomes both longtime choral music enthusiasts and those experiencing this repertoire for the first time.

Illuminare is the professional choral ensemble of CCMI, which works to enrich the Crystal Coast through high-quality classical vocal music performances, music education, and community cultural experiences.

Erinys Quartet & Oskar Espina Ruiz Concert
Presented by the American Music Festival

Please join us for the second chamber music concert presenting Erinys Quartet and Oskar Espina Ruiz on November 14 at 7 PM at the First Presbyterian Church, 1604 Arendell Street, Morehead City, NC 28557.
The Erinys Quartet was founded in 2018 at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki where they worked closely with cellist Marko Ylönen. They are currently the graduate string quartet-in-residence at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.
The Erinys Quartet was awarded the First Prize at the 2025 Trondheim International Chamber Music Competition in Norway, in addition to other awards. They have presented concerts throughout the United States and Europe, including debuts at the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society and the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland.

Artistic director and international clarinetist Oskar Espina Ruiz will join the Erinys Quartet. Mr. Espina Ruiz has emerged as one of the leading clarinetists of his generation, praised as a concerto soloist at the Casals Festival for his “masterful virtuosity” (El Nuevo Día, Puerto Rico), and admired for his “rhapsodic ease” and “generous, tender warmth” (The Millbrook Independent) in chamber music collaborations with the top string quartets and piano trios of our time.
The quartet will be performing Lembit BEECHER -Juniper and Birch, Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART-String Quartet in D Minor, K.421, (Haydn) and Johannes BRAHMS-Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Opus 115

Background:
A local not-for-profit organization, AMF has been providing great music to
Carteret County and Eastern North Carolina for the last 37 years. A portion of the ticket
proceeds and donations to AMF go to provide music outreach programs for county
school children. AMF is supported by the Arts Council of Carteret County, the NC Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Cultural Voice of North Carolina

Crystal Coast Chamber Music presents “Masterworks for Clarinet, Viola, and Piano.” The program includes Mozart's "Kegelstatt" Trio, Rebecca Clarke’s Prelude, Allegro, and Pastorale, and Max Bruch's Eight Pieces. The performers for this concert are clarinetist and artistic director Chadwick Thomas, violist Roselyn Hobbs, and pianist Yujin Lee. Admission is free, and the concert will take place at Emerald Isle Baptist Church on Saturday, December 5th at 4pm.

The 28th annual presentation of Handel's Messiah in Kinston featuring the NC Baroque Orchestra, the Kinston-Lenoir Community Chorus, and 4 world renowned soloists. The performance includes the first act and the Hallelujah Chorus. Admission is free, donations are appreciated.