Intimate Voices chamber music in an intimate setting
2025 - 2026 Season Artists
Venezuelan violist Ramón Carrero-Martínez is a prize winner of numerous competitions in the US, Italy, Australia, Japan, and Venezuela, including the Grand Prize at the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, Second Prize in the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition, and Third Prize in Osaka International Chamber Music Competition and Festa. He was appointed a member of Ensemble Connect at Carnegie Hall for their 2023-2025 season.
A versatile soloist, chamber, and orchestral musician, he has toured with the Grammy Award-winning conductorless Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and performed with Terra String Quartet, Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players, Exponential Ensemble, and Mark Morris Dance Group as well as the New York City Ballet, Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra, New York Classical Players, Experiential Orchestra, and Riverside Symphony among many others.
As an educator, Mr. Carrero-Martinez is a faculty artist at the San Antonio Classical Music Institute as well as a member of the faculty of the Bronx-based music program UpBeat NYC, and the Orchestrating Dreams Program in Inwood. Both of these New York City programs are inspired by the philosophy of Venezuela’s National System of Youth and Children Orchestras, “El Sistema.”
Ramón was a member of “El Sistema” and holds a B.A. and M.M. from the Manhattan School of Music where he studied with Daniel Avshalomov. Beyond his musical activities, he enjoys cooking, playing chess and is an incurable salsa dancer.
For more information, please visit ramoncarreromartinez.com
Violinist Renée Jolles enjoys an eclectic career as soloist and chamber artist specializing in a wide variety of styles from the Baroque to the contemporary. Hailed as a “real star” by The New York Times for her New York concerto debut in Alice Tully Hall, she has premiered hundreds of works, including the American premiere of Schnittke’s Violin Concerto No. 2. Her concerto engagements have included orchestras such as Orpheus, the Philharmonic Orchestra of New Jersey, and the Salisbury Symphony.
Ms. Jolles is a member of the Jolles Duo, Continuum, Intimate Voices, and The New York Chamber Ensemble, and she is a concertmaster of the world-renowned, Grammy Award winning, conductorless Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Honored to be a featured soloist in three world premieres as part of the Orpheus “New Brandenburg” commissions, she can be heard as soloist on the WQXR website in live performances from Carnegie Hall. She has performed at festivals such as Marlboro, Cape May, Bowdoin International Music Festival, Suzhou Music Festival (China), Lucerne Festival (Switzerland), ISCM World Music Days (Luxembourg), Edinburgh International Festival, Caracas Festival (Venezuela),and Irkhom Festival (Uzbekistan). Committed to recording new music, she can be heard as soloist and chamber artist on the Deutsche Grammaphon, Cambria, CRI, North/South Recordings, Albany, and New World labels. In 2014, Ms. Jolles inaugurated The Eastman School of Music’s celebrated annual Holocaust Remembrance Concert series featuring faculty performances of neglected masterworks by composers who perished or survived during this time, and modern works based on Holocaust themes.
Ms. Jolles is Professor of Violin at the Eastman School of Music, where she has received Eastman’s Eisenhart Award for Excellence in Teaching, and during the summer she is on the faculty at the Bowdoin International Music Festival, Aria Summer Music Academy, Portland Bach Festival, and Bach Virtuosi. She received her BM and MM from Juilliard, and her teachers have included Lewis Kaplan, Felix Galimir, Jacob Lateiner, and members of the Juilliard, Tokyo, and American String Quartets.
Violinist Sheila Reinhold is the founder and Music Director of Intimate Voices, now in its seventeenth and final season.
She gave her first performance as soloist with orchestra at the age of nine in the Kaufmann Concert Hall of the 92nd Street Y in her native New York City. At the age of fourteen, she was invited by Jascha Heifetz to join his master class at the University of Southern California, where she studied with him for five years. She received her B.Mus. from USC and studied theory and analysis with composers Leon Kirchner and Earl Kim at Harvard University.
Ms. Reinhold's concert engagements have included solo appearances with conductors such as Zubin Mehta and André Kostelanetz, chamber music with Heifetz and Gregor Piatigorsky, and performances both as soloist and as chamber musician at festivals such as Chautauqua, Ives, and Mohawk Trail. She has premiered many solo and chamber works for both violin and viola and can be heard as a chamber musician on the North/South and Albany labels, most recently on a CD of the music of Allen Shawn. Her varied career has also included work on major films and Broadway productions, and appearances in concert and on recordings with popular artists such as the late Tony Bennett and Aretha Franklin.
Ms. Reinhold has had a life-long dedication to teaching, with positions including Resident Musician at Harvard and head of the string faculty at the Children's Orchestra Society in New York, in addition to maintaining her home studio. She has also been an adjudicator, guest teacher and chamber music coach at, among others, the Juilliard School, Mannes College, Manhattan School of Music, Eastman School of Music, and Columbia University. She has been a faculty member of the Chamber Music Conference and Composer's Forum of the East each summer since 2000.
Sheila Reinhold recently moved her home base to Denver, where she has taught courses for adult music-lovers through the University of Denver and curated an annual Holocaust Remembrance concert, among other activities, while maintaining her commitment to Intimate Voices in New York and engagements elsewhere.
Championing musical works from all periods, cellist James Wilson performs on Baroque as well as modern cello with repertoire ranging from the late-17th century to new works especially written for him. As recitalist and chamber musician, he has appeared in Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall and Kennedy Center, the Musikverein in Vienna, the Koelner Philharmonie, the National Concert Hall in Taipei, and the Sydney Opera House. He has performed at music festivals around the world such as the Hong Kong Arts Festival, the City of London Festival, the Deutches Mozartfest in Bavaria, the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival in Finland, the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York City and the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado.
The multi-faceted Mr. Wilson is a member and has been the Artistic Coordinator of the Grammy-winning Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and regularly serves as guest principal cellist of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. As a former member of the Shanghai and Chester String Quartets and the Da Capo Chamber Players, he has recorded and toured extensively in the United States and around the world. His performances have been broadcast on West German Radio and Bavarian Radio in Germany, CBC radio in Canada, Radio Shanghai, Radio Helsinki, and CBS television and National Public Radio in the United States. A resident of both New York City and Staunton, Virginia, he founded the Chamber Music Society of Central Virginia (CMSCVA) in Richmond in 2004, and remains the group’s Artistic Director. He is currently on the faculty of the Music Performance Program at Columbia University in New York.
This is Mr. Wilson's seventeenth consecutive season appearing with Intimate Voices.