Celebrate fall with the free “Mendelssohn and Beyond” Faculty Artist Concert from the North Carolina Chamber Music Institute. The concert, which will feature NCCMI faculty musicians and members of the NC Symphony, will be held Sunday, October 29 at 4:00 pm at Church of the Nativity, 8849 Ray Road, Raleigh, and will feature works by both standard and new composers, as well as those who have been unfairly neglected.

A world premiere of “Sandcastled King” for string quartet by NCCMI alumnus Quenton Blache will be performed by Aurora Musicalis. Blache is a composer and cellist currently working in California and has toured internationally with the Sphinx Virtuosi. Also featured will be quartets by Friedrich Seitz and Felix Mendelssohn. Elizabeth Beilman, Associate Principal Cellist of the North Carolina Symphony, Executive Director of NCCMI and Professor of Cello-Adjunct at NC State University, is curating the program which is open to the public.

The concert will also be recorded and streamed on the NCCMI YouTube Channel on November 6 at 6:00 pm.

More info at nccmi.org.