omaha chamber music Society

Since its founding in 2000, the Omaha Chamber Music Society has brought outstanding chamber music to the greater Omaha community. The centerpiece of the Society's season is its Summer Concert Series, a series of full-length chamber music concerts featuring professional musicians from the greater Omaha area. For the first seven seasons, the Summer Concert Series was presented at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral. After a hiatus in 2008, the Omaha Chamber Music Society returned in June 2009 in its new home at Saint Margaret Mary Church. Saint Margaret Mary is a wonderful setting for our concerts - with a beautiful and acoustically attractive sanctuary, as well as easy access and plenty of parking. The 2009 Summer Concert Series was a great success, with outstanding performances and record attendance. We are looking forward to more outstanding performances at Saint Margaret Mary during the 2010 Summer Concert Series.

In addition to the Summer Concert Series, the Omaha Chamber Music Society has presented performances in collaboration with many organizations in the community, including Joslyn Art Museum, Joslyn Castle, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Presbyterian Church of the Cross Organ Vespers Series, St Richard's School, and many others. Omaha Chamber Music Society is pleased that its musicians will appear on five programs of the Music as Medicine series at University of Nebraska Medical Center during the 2009 - 2010 season.

Omaha Chamber Music Society is committed to bringing chamber music into the community and building opportunities for chamber music education. During the summer of 2009, Omaha Chamber Music Society musicians worked with approximately 150 young people through programs in Music in Catholic Schools and the Girl Scout Great Plains Council's My Summer Place day camp.

OCMS also offered its first ever youth chamber music clinic in September 2009. OCMS and Omaha Public Schools are working together to bring a coaching and mentoring program to students at McMillan Magnet Center. Thanks to funding from the Sherwood Foundation, a quartet of professional musicians will make four visits to McMillan to work with approximately 50 students in the school's strings program.

OCMS is expanding its outreach in the health care community, bringing musicians to Hospice House to provide music which offers comfort to patients and their loved ones. OCMS is grateful to Augustana Lutheran Church for providing funding for this pilot project.