The mission of the Palm Beach Symphony Society is to engage, educate and entertain the greater community of the Palm Beaches through live performances of inspiring orchestral music. Palm Beach Symphony was founded in 1974 to address the need for a professional orchestra in Palm Beach County. In its earliest years, the orchestra performed only a few concerts a year with a part-time conductor and a volunteer staff. Today, under the leadership of David McClymont, Palm Beach Symphony has grown into a world-class orchestra with an expanded mission that includes carefully crafted education and community outreach programs that bring live classical music programs and concerts into schools, community centers, and public venues in and around the Palm Beaches. McClymont oversees a robust season of masterworks and chamber music concerts, produced under the music direction of internationally renowned conductor Maestro Gerard Schwarz. Palm Beach Symphony performs in modern venues, such as The Kravis Center, The Harriet Himmel Theater, and Benjamin Hall; and in historically important landmarks, including the Henry Morrison Flagler Museum, The Breakers Palm Beach, the Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea , and The Society of the Four Arts, and The Norton Museum of Art.