David Bernard News

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'.

Bridging technology and classical music, the Park Avenue Chamber birthed the innovative InsideOut Digital series: a live, virtual concert on Facebook that uses 'human avatars' and real-time communication with a remote audience to push the boundaries of what a digital musical experience can be.

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, February 8th, the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony continues its 20th Anniversary Season with a fully immersive InsideOut Concerts production entitled a?oeWolfgang's World.a?? Led by music director David Bernard, a?oeWolfgang's Worlda?? explores Mozart's life through his music, including selections from his symphonies, concertos, chamber music, operas and his requiem. Performing with the orchestra will be clarinetist Alec Manasse, violinist Aram Kim, soprano Tamra Paselk, baritone Martin Fisher and the New Amsterdam Singers.

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 have seen - and continue - a partnership with the pioneering InsideOut Concerts with their immersive orchestra experiences (to feature in two programs this PACS season - see below), the launching of a series of recordings on Recursive Classics that have been applauded by critics in Gramophone, The Arts Desk and elsewhere, and compelling stand-alone events such as their Tribute to Veterans (an event that saw more than 300 musicians on the Carnegie Hall stage, and the New York premiere of Dreams Of The Fallen by Jake Runestad and poet and military veteran Brian Turner). There are more, many more, achievements one could cite, but the coming anniversary season has its own share of fascinations:

I have seen the future of Classical Concert-Going and it is called INSIDE OUT! Two years ago, Maestro David Bernard began an experiment in classical concert-going. He had a bold new idea to intimately integrate the audience directly into the concert by literally seating them within the orchestra among the musicians -the idea being to create a totally immersive symphonic experience. Two years and more than a dozen performances later, the experiment has been a success on every level. Thousands of spellbound audience members can attest to the visceral power of live music performed by a 60-piece orchestra on all sides of you.

On Saturday, May 18th at 8PM at CMT Auditorium in New York City, the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony led by Maestro David Bernard, will perform the New York Premiere of an animated interpretation of Mussorgsky's 'Pictures at an Exhibition' set to live music.

The Massapequa Philharmonic, under the direction of its music director David Bernard, continues its 2018-2019 season with a selection of dramatic works, including Beethoven's Overture to King Stefan, Schumann's Symphony No. 2 and Lalo's Cello Concerto featuring noted cellist Adrian Daurov.

The Nutcracker matinee presented by the Eglevsky Ballet opened with an enthusiastic welcome from the Executive Artistic Director, Maurice Brandon Curry. Mr. Curry truly choreographed this production with great attention to detail, quality, and with an unparalleled panache. The Massapequa Philharmonic under the direction of David Bernard regaled the audience with the classical music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Throughout the performance, at times, I felt as if I were listening to a pre-recorded sound track because it was so smooth. What a wonderful addition and elevated element for the audience!

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