Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
— Leonard Bernstein

2025 summer concert series

Our 25th Anniversary!

The Summer Concert Series has been the centerpiece of the Omaha Chamber Music Society season since its debut in 2001. Our longest running program features top professional musicians with ties to the greater Omaha community. Repertoire ranges from Baroque and Classical masterpieces to more recent works by renowned composers of today.


Omaha Brass - Apex Predators

3:00 pm
Sunday, June 8, 2025

Omaha Conservatory of Music
7023 Cass Street, Omaha

Ramos: Spanish Fanfare
Likhuta: Apex Predators
Wolf: Hero
Wilder: Jazz Suite
Cheetham: Scherzo
Long: Five Maskers
Esmail : Khirkiyaan

Featuring Scott Quackenbush & Federico Montes, trumpet; Brett Hodge, horn; Patrick Pfister, trombone & Craig Fuller, tuba


Ravel’s Introduction & Allegro - Music for Strings, winds & harp

3:00 pm
Sunday, June 15, 2025

Omaha Conservatory of Music
7023 Cass Street, Omaha

Bax: Quintet for Harp & Strings
Saint-Saëns: Fantaisie
Gilad Cohen: Firefly Elegy
Ravel: Introduction & Allegro

Featuring Sara Magill, harp; Henry Jenkins & Bozhidar Shopov, violin; Alexa Brown, viola; Paul Ledwon, cello; Lisa Meyerhofer, flute; Rosario Galante, clarinet


Baroque Strings

3:00 pm
Sunday, June 22, 2025

Omaha Conservatory of Music
7023 Cass Street, Omaha

Telemann: Concerto in G Major for Four Violins
Vivaldi: Concerto for Four Violins & Cello in B Minor
Bach: Concerto for Two Violins
Hasse: Sinfonia for Strings in G Minor
Albinoni: Sinfonia for Strings in G Major
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3

Featuring Sarah Craynor, Alejandro Gómez Guillén, Mary Perkinson & Henry Jenkins, violin; Alexa Brown, Thomas Kluge & Tyler Sieh, viola; Greg Clinton, Micah Fusselman & Tim Strang, cello; Bobby Scharmann, bass; Marie Rubis-Bauer, harpsichord


Tribute to Willa Cather

3:00 pm
Sunday, June 29, 2025

Omaha Conservatory of Music
7023 Cass Street, Omaha

Beeftink: Birds
Shulamit Ran: East Wind
Copland: Clarinet Sonata (III. Allegro giusto)
Wharton: Where are the Watchers?
Edstrom: Prairie SongsRemembering Ántonia (selections)
Beeftink: Seasons
Lévinas: The Fluttering of Wings
Copland: As it Fell Upon a Day
Harberg: Birding in the Palisades

Featuring Maria Harding & Amy Thiemann, flute; Rosario Galante, clarinet; Christi Zuniga, piano; Katrina Naraine, narrator

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2020 OCMS House Concerts

Celliccino

Beethoven at the Beach

Bassoon Party!

Scott Quackenbush on Brandenburg 2

Omaha Symphony Principal Cello Paul Ledwon

Piano Duos - the Return of the Return!