Bio
Sheila Reinhold 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 was the founder and music director of Intimate Voices, a chamber music series in New York City which ran from 2009 to 2026 and presented chamber music concerts and community outreach events featuring some of New York's finest chamber musicians in classical and contemporary repertoire.
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 curates an annual Holocaust Remembrance concert, among other activities, while maintaining her commitment to engagements elsewhere.
Gallery
At the Chamber Music Conference and Composers' Forum of the East, July 2021
At the Chamber Music Conference and Composers' Forum of the East, July 2026
L'Histoire du Soldat by Igor Stravinsky with the Judy Oberfelder Dance Projects and the Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra
Giving a good cue
In the CMC Presents video series of the Chamber Music Conference and Composers' Forum of the East, filmed in June of the pandemic summer
of 2020.
The musicians of the Intimate Voices concert on February 29, 2020, our last in-person concert before the pandemic.
top l-r: Sheila Reinhold, Renée Jolles, Melissa Reardon, James Wilson
Exploring chamber music with kids in an Intimate Voices chamber series Family Program in New York
Calendar (selected)
Temple Emanuel Denver "If Music Be the Food..." September 29, 2026
A joyful and varied program of music from Bach to the 21st century, the fourth annual concert to benefit the Weinberg Food Pantry of Jewish Family Service.
Margaret Dyer Harris, viola
Chloe Hong, cello
Sheila Reinhold, violin
Admission: bring non-perishable food items or monetary donation for the Weinberg Food Pantry by cash/check, or donate online.
Registration required, register here.
Please note, if you are not a Temple Emanuel member register by filling in the information on the right side of the registration page, under "Enter Your Details".
7 pm
Feiner Chapel of Temple Emanuel Denver
51 Grape Street, Denver, CO 80220
CMC-East 2026
July 19-26 at Colgate University, Hamilton NY
April 14, 2026: Holocaust Memorial Concert at Temple Emanuel Denver
A Vibrant Legacy: Chamber Music of a Lost Generation
Yumi Hwang-Williams, violin
Sheila Reinhold, violin
Margaret Dyer Harris, viola
Chloe Hong, cello
Erwin Schulhoff, Five Pieces for String Quartet (1924)
Emile Goué, Duo for violin and cello (1942)
Mieczysław Weinberg, Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 66 (1959)
Admission free, registration required. Registration link.
7 pm
Feiner Family Memorial Chapel, Temple Emanuel Denver
51 Grape Street, Denver, CO 80220
February 22, 2026: Temple Emanuel Denver program for families
Sensory/autism-friendly JDAIM event, free
A lively, interactive and informal program, under an hour in length, featuring explorations of selections of great chamber music live and up close. Presented as part of Temple Emanuel’s celebration of JDAIM (Jewish Disability Awareness, Acceptance, and Inclusion Month), the program is designed in a relaxed, sensory/autism-friendly format to welcome all children and their families.
Admission free, registration required. Registration will open shortly
4:30 - 5:30 pm
North Social Hall, Temple Emanuel Denver
51 Grape Street, Denver, CO 80220
Intimate Voices in NYC
Saturday evening, November 22, 2025
Sheila Reinhold (violin), Renée Jolles (violin), Ramón Carrero-Martínez (viola), and James Wilson (cello)
April 22, 2025: Holocaust Memorial Concert at Temple Emanuel Denver
A Vibrant Legacy: Chamber Music of a Lost Generation
Yumi Hwang-Williams, violin
Sheila Reinhold, violin, viola
Meta Weiss, cello
Miklós Rózsa, Sonata for Two Violins (1935)
Géza Frid, String Trio Op. 1 (1926)
Hans Krása, Passacaglia and Fugue for string trio, (1944)
Admission free, registration required
7 pm
Feiner Chapel of Temple Emanuel Denver
51 Grape Street, Denver, CO 80220
February 23, 2025: Temple Emanuel Denver program for families
A lively, interactive and informal program, under an hour in length, featuring explorations of selections of great chamber music live and up close. Presented as part of Temple Emanuel’s celebration of JDAIM (Jewish Disability Awareness, Acceptance, and Inclusion Month), the program is designed in a relaxed, sensory/autism-friendly format to welcome all children and their families.
Nicholas Tisherman, oboe
Sheila Reinhold, violin
Kostadin Dyulgerski, viola
Amanda Laborete, cello
4:30 -5:30 pm, admission free
Temple Emanuel Denver
51 Grape Street, Denver, CO 80220
May 7, 2024: Holocaust Memorial Concert at Temple Emanuel Denver
A Vibrant Legacy: Chamber Music of a Lost Generation
Yumi Hwang-Williams, violin
Sheila Reinhold, violin, viola
Seoyoen Min, cello
Sándor Kuti, Serenade for String Trio
Hanns Eisler, Duo for Violin and Cello, op. 7/1
Mieczysław Weinberg, Sonata for Two Violins, op. 69
Hans Krása, Tanec (Dance) for String Trio
7 pm, admission free
Feiner Chapel of Temple Emanuel Denver
51 Grape Street, Denver, CO 80220
Intimate Voices 2023-2024, live in NYC
Saturday evenings
November 4, 2023 January 13, 2024 March 9, 2024
with Ramón Carrero-Martínez (viola), Dana Kelley (viola), Renée Jolles (violin), Sujin Lee (cello). Nathan Whittaker (cello)
Sunday afternoon, March 10 free sensory/autism-friendly family program
April 20, 2023: Holocaust Memorial Concert at Temple Emanuel Denver
A Vibrant Legacy: Chamber Music of a Lost Generation
Yumi Hwang-Williams, violin
Sheila Reinhold, violin, viola
Seoyoen Min, cello
Zigmund Schul, Two Chassidic Dances for two violins
Erwin Schulhoff, Duo for violin and cello
László Weiner, Duo for violin and viola
Gideon Klein, Trio for violin, viola, and cello
7 pm
Admission free
Feiner Chapel of Temple Emanuel Denver
51 Grape Street, Denver, CO 80220
March 2023: University College Enrichment Program, University of Denver
Banned Music Reborn: The Rediscovery of Two Generations of European Composers
March 23, 30 6:30-8:30 MDT on Zoom
DU Enrichment Program Homepage
DU Enrichment Program online catalogue, winter/spring 2023
In 1933, the Third Reich began the persecution of all musicians of Jewish ancestry and all musicians suspected of opposition to Nazi culture. By 1945, two generations of European composers had been murdered or had fled into exile.
This course is an introduction to the exciting and moving rediscovery of these composers and their music, with performances throughout the world of lost or forgotten compositions. Topics discussed in the sessions will include: the place of these composers in the musical life of pre-war Germany and Europe, the many perils that faced them after the Nazi rise to power, the challenges and consequences of exile for those who survived, the possible reasons - both cultural and political - that until recently so much music was lost, forgotten, or willfully suppressed, and how these discoveries are re-shaping our view of 20th-century music and impacting the international classical music scene. In each session I will perform music for solo violin.
Contact Me
sheila.reinhold@gmail.com
917-620-0276
