Five teenage laureates, one believing orchestra, and an evening that proved to us why the concerto endures: as a stage for the brave individual voice. The Park Avenue Chamber Symphony’s 2025–26 season — including its immersive InsideOut Concerts — awaits the curious listener. Seek out the exciting 2026-27 season, take a seat in the sound, and let these musicians astonish you, too.
Spellbinding Strauss was a luminous reminder of why the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony has become indispensable to New York’s cultural landscape. Maestro Bernard and Sara Beth Pearson delivered an unforgettable journey through Strauss’s life and art — all from inside the orchestra itself. Don’t miss the remainder of the 2025–26 Immersions and Explorations season; Sublime Schubert and more await. Step inside the music. You will leave transformed, inspired, and yearning, like Strauss’s own pilgrim at sunset, for the next halcyon encounter.
The European Classical Music Awards Annual Grand Prix 2025 has recognized in David Bernard something the musicians of the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony have long known: that this is a conductor of exceptional gifts, whose accomplishments are inseparable from the community of musicians he has gathered, shaped, and — in Bernstein’s word — made them want to play.
The Park Avenue Chamber Symphony’s “Sublime Schubert” concert was a transcendent evening of immersive orchestral artistry. Under David Bernard’s visionary leadership and the InsideOut Concert format, audiences experienced Schubert’s Eighth and Ninth Symphonies from inside the orchestra—an unforgettable journey of beauty, intellect, and communal joy. Explore their 2025–2026 season and discover why PACS is redefining the concert experience.
The Park Avenue Chamber Symphony’s InsideOut Concerts® offer transformative musical experiences for audiences of all ages. Under the inspired leadership of Maestro David Bernard, this award-winning ensemble brings classical masterworks to vivid life at the DiMenna Center. Don’t miss their upcoming season of immersive explorations—step inside the music and discover why critics acclaim them as a world-class orchestra.
The Park Avenue Chamber Symphony’s radiant Saint-Saëns program at the DiMenna Center blended immersive magic, dazzling virtuosity, and profound emotional resonance. With David Bernard’s visionary leadership, Maxim Lando’s brilliance, and Paolo Bordignon’s majestic artistry, the evening ignited a passionate call to experience future PACS performances from within the very heart of the music.
The Park Avenue Chamber Symphony kicks off its 2025-2025 season at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music on November 22, 2025, with one of the most thrilling works in the orchestral repertoire: Camille Saint-Saëns’ Symphony No. 3 in C minor, the “Organ Symphony.”
The Park Avenue Chamber Symphony’s 2025-26 season invites you inside the orchestra with its groundbreaking InsideOut Concerts®. Maestro David Bernard curates composer-focused programs—Saint-Saëns, Schubert, Strauss—offering unforgettable, immersive journeys through masterworks. With world-class artistry, accessibility, and innovation, these concerts promise transformative experiences for families and music lovers alike.
David Bernard’s Park Avenue Chamber Symphony transforms Stravinsky’s devilish masterpiece into transcendent theater, proving that technical brilliance and emotional truth create the most potent magic in classical music. Their innovative approaches to audience engagement and musical excellence promise an unforgettable upcoming season of artistic revelations.
Young virtuosos from New York’s Special Music School delivered absolutely transcendent performances with the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony at the Kaufman Music Center’s Merkin Hall, showcasing breathtaking technical artistry and profound emotional maturity that brilliantly revealed the extraordinary, deeply inspiring bright future of American classical music excellence today.
