June 7: Cascia Hall Performing Arts Center

Doors Open at 5:30pm
Tulsa Honors Baroque Orchestra: 6:00pm
Natasha Paremski: 7:30pm

With Special Guest, Thomas Lovett

Tulsa Honors Orchestra (THO) is a youth string orchestra in its 46th year of providing excellent string instruction to youth string players, as well as providing numerous fantastic opportunities for orchestra performances. THO regularly performs at Kilkenny’s Irish Restaurant, Arnie’s St Patrick’s Day, TU Lorton Performance Center, Tulsa PAC downtown Tulsa, Cascia Hall and the Mayo Hotel for Holiday Concerts.

THO is comprised of 3 orchestras: Tulsa Honors Orchestra, Tulsa Honors Baroque (Advanced Orchestra) and the Debutante Orchestra. THO meets every Monday. The Debutante Orchestra, for beginning sight reading students, meets from 4:15-5:15pm. The Tulsa Honors Orchestra rehearses from 5:30-6:30pm, the Tulsa Honors Baroque is a more challenging orchestra, which stays for an additional hour, from 6:30-7:40pm.


THO was founded by Jody Naifeh, Mother of Karen Naifeh Harmon, Violinist, Composer, and current Tulsa Honors Orchestra Executive Director. Tulsa Honors Baroque directors are Karen Naifeh Harmon and Terry Pollak, while THO coaches include Austin Pendergrass, cello coach, Jocelyn Khalaf, violin coach and Kyle Wagner, string bass coach. The Debutante Orchestra director is Mercy Rose.

Jody Naifeh passed away in December of 2019. We are all mourning her loss. Her spirit lives on through the amazing students she taught and through her loving family. The spirit, strength and level of commitment were evident especially in the fact that Jody was conducting the Tulsa Honors Orchestra until 3 weeks before her death. Jody Naifeh was a 2017 Harwelden Award: Bart Betow Memorial Music Education Award recipient and a 2011 Oklahoma Governor’s Arts Award recipient and most recently, a Lifetime Educator Achievement Award recipient in 2019 through the National Fiddler’s Hall of Fame. In June of 2021, Jody won a posthumous award as the OMTA Fellow of 2021 through the Oklahoma Music Teachers Association.

Thomas Lovett

Thomas Lovett is a violinist with varied musical experiences including an orchestral, solo, chamber and teaching background. He has held violin positions with Orchestras such as the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, Knoxville Symphony, and Amarillo Symphony. He has appeared as soloist with the New Life Symphony Orchestra in Richardson, TX, the Maryville Community Orchestra in Tennessee, the University of Oklahoma and the University of Tennessee Symphony Orchestras respectively, having won each University’s Concerto Competition. He has performed in several prominent Mastercalsses including one for Almita Vamos-legendary violin teacher of Northwestern University, where he was praised for having ‘World Class Sound’; and was called a ‘Great Player’ by Alessandro Capone, a member of the Berlin Philharmonic.

Thomas recieved an Artist Diploma from the Hartt School of Music, having earlier completed his Masters from the University of Tennessee. He has enjoyed his role as a teacher at several prominent music festivals including a Guest Artist Faculty position at NYU’s Collaborative Piano Festival and Faculty at the Amateur Series for the Music Mountain Festival in Connecticut. Thomas’s major violin teachers were Jody Naifeh, Felicia Moye’ and Anton Miller. He plays a modern violin made in 1993 by Jon Van Kouwenhoven .

Mark Your Calendars: June 6-8, 2025 – 41st Annual OKM Music Festival!

Join us for the 41st Annual OKM Music Festival, a beloved tradition in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, celebrating the transformative power of music and the arts! From June 6-8, 2025, experience world-class performances from the world’s most renowned classical musicians.

June 6: Woolaroc Museum and Wildlife Center
Grady Nichols
Manhattan Chamber Players

June 7: Cascia Hall Performing Arts Center
Tulsa Honors Baroque Orchestra
Natasha Paremski

June 8: The Refinery
Eric Wu, Nick Du, Anbo Ni
Escher Quartet