Intimate Voices chamber music in an intimate setting
A Note from the Music Director – August 2024
It was wonderful to finally return to a full season of programming in 2023-24. We so enjoyed the warm reception we received from our attentive Saturday evening concert audiences, the joyful energy of our sensory/autism-friendly Family Program, the eager listening by residents in units of the VA Medical Center, and more! It was so rewarding to share music with friends, old and new.
Now, as we look forward, we face the new post-Covid realities in the live classical music industry – e.g. live audiences are down 30% nationally, the rise of streaming with paywalls, the prevalence of social media, etc. – and we must explore new directions. We have decided that the best way forward is to put our evening concert series programming on hiatus for the coming season to give ourselves time for these explorations.
But we plan to maintain, and hopefully even expand, our outreach programming. These events seem to be even more necessary, and more appreciated, than ever before, and we are delighted to announce that the NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital is continuing their generous support in 2024-25. Thanks to them and to your generous donations, we have been able to sustain and expand these outreach efforts since 2009!
So please check back for updates. We will be presenting our annual free sensory/autism-friendly Family Program at our home at CSAIR, and visiting area special-needs classrooms, the VA Medical Center, and area nursing homes. As you can see, although our evening concert series will be on hiatus, we will be busy in the community! If you would like to support these 2024-25 community outreach programs, please go to our donation page for information.
We look forward to seeing you all in the near future. Please do not hesitate to write to us if you have any thoughts and ideas as we move ahead.
Violinist Sheila Reinhold is the founder and Music Director of Intimate Voices, now entering its sixteenth season. She gave her first performance as soloist with orchestra at the age of nine in the Kaufmann Concert Hall of New York's 92nd Street Y. At fourteen, she played for Jascha Heifetz, and was invited 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 Leon Kirchner and Earl Kim at Harvard University.
Ms. Reinhold's engagements have included solo appearances with conductors such as Zubin Mehta and André Kostelanetz, chamber music with Heifetz and Gregor Piatigorsky, and performances as soloist at the Chautauqua and Ives Festivals. She has also premiered solo and chamber works for both violin and viola, and been a regular participant in chamber music on both violin and viola in series such as the Mohawk Trails Concerts in Massachusetts. She plays music in other genres as well, working on major films and Broadway productions, and has appeared with many popular artists including the late Tony Bennett. She has recorded as a chamber musician on the Albany and North/South labels, and is featured on a recent recording of the music of Allen Shawn.
Ms. Reinhold’s lifetime dedication to teaching has led to positions ranging from Resident Musician at Harvard University to chair of the string faculty at the Children’s Orchestra Society in New York, and in the summer she is a member of the Chamber Music Conference and Composers' Forum of the East. She also teaches courses for adult music lovers through the University of Denver.