Chamber music to be featured during Music as Medicine

Final act The final Music as Medicine concert of the season will be held at noon on Thursday, June 18 when the Bel Canto choir performs at the medical center.

Amy Sims, Jeffery Whaley and Christi Zuniga of the Omaha Chamber Music Society will perform during today’s Music as Medicine concert in the Durham Outpatient Center West Atrium.

Sims — the concert mistress of the Omaha Symphony — will be on violin and be joined by Whaley on horn and Zuniga on piano.

Sims’ performance should be a special treat for the UNMC community, said John Benson, M.D., a professor of internal medicine who leads the Music as Medicine concert series.

“We are very fortunate to have Amy Sims perform,” Dr. Benson said. “Those who go to symphony concerts see this tall, elegant lady enter the stage next to last (the conductor enters last) and signal the tuning of all the other instruments with her violin. She sits at the conductor’s podium in the ‘first chair,’ right up front.”

The noon performance is sponsored by UNMC Human Resources and the Chancellor’s Office.