A Note from the Music Director – August 2025

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It is with mixed feelings that we announce that 2025-26 will be the final season of Intimate Voices. It has been a wonderful 16 years, since our first concert in November of 2009, through expansion of our community outreach events, into our tenth season celebration, then the Covid years of Zoom programming, and back again with a full portfolio of concerts and community outreach. But now the time has come.

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We will close our concert series programming with one final concert on Saturday evening, November 22, and I am delighted that both Renée Jolles (violin) and James Wilson (cello) will be able to join me for this special evening. Renée and Jim have played virtually every Intimate Voices concert since 2009, as well as so many outreach events! We will be joined by our friend, violist Ramón Carrero-Martínez, who has been an active Intimate Voices participant over the past several years, and we all look forward to celebrating together with you on November 22. 

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For this special occasion we have set our ticket price at $18 for all. Online ticket sales will open shortly, and tickets can also be purchased at the door by cash or check. Admission will include - as always! - wine, coffee and tea, light refreshments, and a reception with the musicians.

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And we are planning a full portfolio of community outreach events this final season. Stay tuned for the date of our free sensory/autism-friendly Family Program!

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We are very grateful to all our supporters over the years: individuals, neighborhood businesses, the Allen Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian, and of course our host and presenter, CSAIR. This season we ask that any donations you wish to make be directed to CSAIR in acknowledgment of all they have done to make this series possible and to help them in their many community-building efforts. Donate here.

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Check back again soon for more details of our November 22 concert. We look forward to celebrating with you!

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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.

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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.

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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.