Great music doesn’t happen only in grand theaters, with dozens of musicians onstage and a thousand fans in the audience. Martin County has mastered the magic of the intimate performance, thanks in part to Stuart resident Marie Jureit-Beamish. 

With her late husband, Cal Jureit, Jureit-Beamish created the Castle Hill Music Festival, now named The Jureit Musicales. Like music salons of old, guests are invited to hear music performed by local and visiting artists in a dozen or so concerts each year, as a gift to the community. On occasion, the program features Jureit-Beamish and her daughters, Ashley Garritson, Laura Garritson Parker, and Lindsay Garritson. Lindsay, an Audience Choice Award winner on the From the Top radio show at age 12, has been invited to participate in an international piano competition in Spain this month and will perform her chosen selections at the April 12 Jureit Musicale. Pianist Martha Argerich chairs the jurying.