A Final Note from the Music Director, October 2026 ​

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For the first time since 2009 we are not announcing a new season. It has been an exhilarating 17 years, with wonderful colleagues, devoted audiences, and fun "Tastings" of wines, beers and cheeses; joyful annual Family Programs at CSAIR; and memorable visits to residents nursing homes, inpatients at the James J. Peters VA Medical Center and special-needs kids in a local preschool. From 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 -- we will miss it all!

 

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 (the Conservative Synagogue Adath Israel of Riverdale). We ask that any donations you wish to make in acknowlegement of our programming be directed to CSAIR in gratitude for 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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Please enjoy looking at our past programs, and continue to support live music of all kinds!

 

- Sheila Reinhold

 

PS - We (still!) always love to hear from our Friends of Intimate Voices! So please do email me at sheila.reinhold@gmail.com.

 

 

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Violinist Sheila Reinhold was the founder and Music Director of Intimate Voices, now having completed 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 where she curates an annual Holocaust Remembrance concert, among other activities.