David Bernard (conductor)

David Bernard is an American orchestral conductor and music director of the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony in New York City, which he founded in 1999.

[citation needed] In an effort to bring classical music to new audiences, Bernard has sought to engage families through schools and present multimedia performances.

[3] His 'Inside Out' concerts with the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony and the Massapequa Philharmonic have been acclaimed by WQXR, Newsday, Classical World and the Epoch Times.

[citation needed] The 'American Prize' judges praised him as “a first-rate conductor…phenomenal performance…masterly in shaping, phrasing, technique and expressively.” Lucid Culture said of a Lincoln Center performance of Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring”.

Segues were seamless, contrasts were vivid and Stravinsky’s whirling exchanges of voices were expertly choreographed.” Bernard’s complete recorded Beethoven symphony cycle was praised by Fanfare magazine for its “intensity, spontaneity, propulsive rhythm, textural clarity, dynamic control, and well-judged phrasing”.