David Bernard News

For the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony's 2018-2019 season opener, music director David Bernard has chosen a program titled “Heroes and Legends” featuring the New York Premiere of Steven Rosenhaus' JFK: A Profile with narration and multimedia elements developed and curated by WQXR Radio Personality Elliot Forrest. The program also includes the debut of Eli Goldberger, a 15-year-old student of Larry Guy at the Juilliard School Pre-College Division in Weber's Clarinet Concerto No. 1, and concludes with Dvo?ák's brilliant Symphony No. 6.

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BWW Review: TCHAIKOWSKI 6TH SYMPHONY by The Park Avenue Chamber Symphony

The Massapequa Philharmonic, the principal orchestra serving Massapequa and Long Island, has extended David Bernard's contract as their Music Director. The extension secures Bernard's position with the orchestra until 2020.

Recursive Classics' latest release features David Bernard leading the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony in Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony. BWW ClassicalWorld took some time to discuss the Path tique with Maestro Bernard.

December is the month of Nutcrackers, and a holiday tradition for many Long Islanders is to see the Eglevsky Ballet perform their prestigious production at the Tilles Center for the Arts in Brookville, Long Island. Eglevsky's production, the largest and only professional production on Long Island, not only features guest dancers from the NYC Ballet, but this year will also feature the Massapequa Philharmonic performing the alluring score by Tchaikovsky. We sat down with Maurice Curry, Executive Artistic Director of the Eglevsky Ballet, and David Bernard, Music Director of the Massapequa Philharmonic to discuss their collaboration and approach to The Nutcracker.

Already breaking new ground with InsideOut Experiences that seat audiences interspersed between the musicians of the orchestra, Park Avenue Chamber Symphony Music Director David Bernard is going one step further - taking the experience interstellar.

Recursive Classics' latest release features David Bernard leading the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony in Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony. BWW ClassicalWorld took some time to discuss the Path tique with Maestro Bernard.

Take a look at this video to get a sneak peek of an InsideOut Experience, where you get to sit in the orchestra alongside your 'fellow' musicians and be conducted by Maestro David Bernard for a movement of Berlioz's witching Symphonie Fantastique - the main work on this Saturday's Halloween program at the DiMenna Center For Classical Music.

Music Director David Bernard will conduct with the audience seated amongst the musicians, continuing his trailblazing 'InsideOut' concept, at New York's DiMenna Center for Classical Music

PACS Music Director David Bernard devotes the entire 2017/18 season to his popular and highly-innovative concert format

'Hidden inside every classical concert is an experience that is as captivating as the most brilliant, immersive events produced today. And until now, audiences have been mostly limited to a distant, diluted experience that not only keeps the music at arm's length, but also blocks access to the incredible process of music-making that occurs in real time onstage," says David Bernard, music director of New York's Park Avenue Chamber Symphony (PACS).

The new initiative's record-breaking debut last season points a way forward for Music Director David Bernard; February 4th concert will also premiere new edition of Stravinsky's 'The Firebird'.

The Park Avenue Chamber Symphony Orchestra (PACS) will honor veterans of the United States Armed Forces with a large-scale gala concert at Carnegie Hall on November 19. The performance will feature the New York premiere of Dreams of the Fallen - the much-admired new work by award-winning composer Jake Runestad and the poet and United States Army veteran Brian Turner. The work probes the way veterans are forever psychologically changed by their experiences of war. The program concludes with a performance of Beethoven's uplifting Symphony No. 9.

Recursive Classics has unveiled a release of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring - the world premiere recording of an important new edition - coupled with Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra featuring David Bernard conducting the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony.

Recursive Classics has unveiled a release of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring - the world premiere recording of an important new edition - coupled with Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra featuring David Bernard conducting the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony.

The Park Avenue Chamber Symphony under the guidance of musical director and conductor, David Bernard, presented yet another in a series of superb concerts this past weekend at the All Saints Church in NYC. The program included Mozart's Flute Concerto No. 1 in G major (K. 313), The Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85, and Mendelssohn's Symphony no 3 in A minor, Op. 56 'Scottish.' As usual, the PACS delivered in a big way.

The mighty Park Avenue Chamber Symphony presents a richly eclectic program of classical and romantic masterpieces they have entitled 'Introspection: Elgar and Mendelssohn.' The program includes Mozart's Flute Concerto No. 1 in G major (K. 313), The Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85, and Mendelssohn's Symphony no 3 in A minor, Op. 56 'Scottish.'

The Massapequa Philharmonic, under the direction of David Bernard, will complete its 2015-2016 season with a concert featuring spectacular Russian music including Borodin's Polovtsian Dances, Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 1, and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5. 

The Massapequa Philharmonic, under the direction of David Bernard, will complete its 2015-2016 season with a concert featuring spectacular Russian music including Borodin's Polovtsian Dances, Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 1, and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5.