DAVID BERNARD

The Park Avenue Chamber Symphony has announced its 2024-2025 season, including five programs led by Music Director David Bernard.  Learn more about the full upcoming season here!...

The Park Avenue Chamber Symphony celebrates its 25th anniversary with an exciting 2024-2025 season, featuring a diverse lineup of performances and special events....

The Park Avenue Chamber Symphony has announced its 2023-2024 season, including five programs led by music director David Bernard....

On February 26th at 3PM, the Philharmonic of Southern New Jersey will present “Images and Imagination” a journey through major symphonic works by illustrious French composers Debussy, Lalo and Berlioz. ...

There are those out in the ether who, upon hearing the name Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) on the radio will immediately switch the station. Mahler is boring. Mahler is long-winded. Mahler tunes wander all over the place. While these things can subjectively be true, given half a chance Mahler's music is none of those things....

Recursive Classics has announced the upcoming release of Mahler's Symphony No. 5, featuring David Bernard leading the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony.   This album will be available on December 2nd, 2022 at all major retailers, download sites and streaming services....

The Massapequa Philharmonic kicks off its 2022-2023 season with “SYMPHONIC SPOOKTACULAR” featuring the music of Camille Saint-Saëns and Hector Berlioz....

While wearing a shirt inside out could earn some curious stares, attending a classical music concert with the words “Inside Out” in the title could earn some out and out confusion.  How can music, or an orchestra producing such music, be “inside out”? ...

Chris Martin, principal trumpet of the New York Philharmonic, and Kate Fruchterman of NYCO dazzled the audience....

The Park Avenue Chamber Symphony kicks off its 2022-2023 season with “From Bach to Mozart: A Classical Journey”—an immersive InsideOut Concerts production featuring soloists Christopher Martin (Principal Trumpet, New York Philharmonic) and Kristin Sampson (Lead Soprano, New York City Opera). ...

The Park Avenue Chamber Symphony has announced their 2022-23 season “Journeys and Soundscapes” featuring world class soloists, innovative experiences and symphonic music spanning Bach through Prokofiev.  ...

When some people hear the word 'community' before the word(s) chorus, theater, band, or orchestra, they really hear 'amateur.' Although amateur means to do something for the love of it, the word also seems to have a negative connotation when it comes to quality. After all, if there's no money involved, how can it be good? Doesn't money equal quality? So goes that reasoning. However, not all community performing arts groups are created equal. Some groups accept all comers. Some accept members str...

The Massapequa Philharmonic has announced that they have renewed David Bernard's contract as their Music Director, securing his position with the orchestra through 2024. Since his appointment as Music Director in 2016, Maestro Bernard has led the expansion of the orchestra, driving its artistic growth and its position in the cultural fabric of Long Island. ...

For the latest release in their series of recordings on Recursive Classics, the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony under Music Director David Bernard stay closer to home in repertoire terms, with their new album 'Sounds Of America'....

Hit by the prolonged New York lockdown in the midst of its 20th anniversary celebrations, the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony not only refused to hang up their instruments, Music Director David Bernard even conceived of a way to innovate - reinventing the digital classical experience...

Park Avenue Chamber Symphony has announced its next interactive livestream, PRODIGIOUS PRODIGIES on Saturday, May 15th  at 3PM....

The PACS Wind Ensemble rehearse Haydn Wood's 'Mannin Veen'  for their inaugural concert to be streamed on Facebook Live this Saturday at 3pm As part of their 20th anniversary celebrations and ahead of their latest 'InsideOut Digital' concert, this Saturday, Feb 6th, The Park Avenue Chamber Symphony (PACS) has launched its first new offshoot ensemble in its history, the PACS Wind Ensemble....

Do you miss live classical music?  Are you growing tired of static video streams to quell your thirst for something that resembles a live concert?  Be sure to catch the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony’s next INTERACTIVE Livestream-INSIDE BEETHOVEN'S 7th AND MORE on Saturday, February 6th at 3PM....

The Massapequa Philharmonic has extended David Bernard's contract as their Music Director, securing his position with the orchestra through 2022. ...

This Sunday, November 22nd at 3PM Eastern Time, the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony will launch InsideOut Concerts Digital's Beethoven's Bombshell, offering Facebook Live audiences the ability to experience Beethoven's “Eroica” Symphony and Mozart's Symphony No. 39 while interacting with the conductor and the musicians from a virtual seat inside the orchestra.  ...

As with most performing arts organizations in the time of COVID, the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony (PACS) is confronted with the challenge of building audiences when live in-person concerts are not possible. Many have attempted to fill this void with video content, whether recorded or streamed —  yet there is a clear need for a more innovative solution, one that catches some of the sense of, and inspires people's eventual return to, the real thing....

The Park Avenue Chamber Symphony and its Music Director David Bernard, have announced the Manhattan-based orchestra's 2020-2021 season....

On Saturday, October 26, 2019 at 6PM, the Danbury Music Centre and the Danbury Symphony Orchestra, in collaboration with InsideOut Concerts, will present their very first immersive concert welcoming audience members on-stage to experience a performance while sitting amongst the musicians. This event, a fund raiser for the Danbury Music Centre, will be hosted and conducted by InsideOut Concerts director David Bernard and will feature Dvořák's beloved “New World Symphony.”...

American conductor David Bernard has been awarded First Prize in the Orchestral Conducting competition of The American Prize, professional division 2019, a national competition for conductors....

The Park Avenue Chamber Symphony (PACS) is riding high these days, its Music Director David Bernard and musicians alike so full of energy and vigour that it comes perhaps as a mild shock to learn that this beloved New York orchestra marks its twentieth year with the 2019/20 season. At a time when some orchestras have settled into a routine, a 'that's the way we've always done it' attitude, PACS seems to be reinventing - if not the wheel, then themselves - almost with every season. Recent years ...