A Note from the Music Director – February 2025

Our outreach programming is under way!

 

Please join us at 3 pm on Sunday March 9 at CSAIR for our annual Family Program, offered free to all.  This interactive, sensory/autism-friendly program features informal explorations of selections of great chamber music, live and up close with Intimate Voices musicians who love working with kids. Designed for ages 5 and up, the one-hour program will also be enjoyed by younger children who are particularly drawn to music, and by adults of all ages. The Taub Room at CSAIR is an intimate and simple space, with enough room for kids to sit where they wish and to move freely as they wish. We welcome all families!

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This opportunity to get close to live music, and to the musicians playing it, can inspire children’s enjoyment of music-making of all kinds for years to come!

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And in the next weeks we will be visiting area special-needs classrooms, the VA Medical Center, and nursing homes in our community. Thanks to the generous support of NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital and our loyal audience, these outreach events will continue even as our evening concert series is on hiatus for this season.

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We look forward to seeing many of you on March 9!​

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Violinist Sheila Reinhold is the founder and Music Director of Intimate Voices, now in 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.

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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.

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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.​

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