Local Musician Releases New Single

By Matthew Avitabile

SOUTH KORTRIGHT — Doc Reinhart a musician from South Kortright released his long-awaited single this week, making the next milestone in his music career. Reinhart, the stage name of Dr. Tom Piscitelli, a recent graduate from Upstate Medical University, talked with us about the expansion of his career.

“My spirit wants me to remain in music,” he said.

Doc Reinhart’s “The Music’s Sounding Good Again” new song comes as the culmination of his musical interest. He has been in a number of bands and followed training on the drums and trumpet.

He started music as a career around twelve years ago following an interest dating back from his childhood.

“As long as I remember, it was definitely in my spirit to write music,” he said.

Reinhart attended medical school after being interested in both science and medicine. He remains interested in medicine, but “music keeps calling me,” he said. “It just keeps calling me back.”
He teaches at the Montessori school in Bovina.

Reinhart’s music has been featured in a number of major releases, including Hallmark films and the Disney Channel. Through contact, he was able to become involved in a number of larger features. After reading a script, he was inspired to write the song for the film within two weeks. He discovered that his song would be featured during a camping trip.

The song “Joy and Hope” is featured in “Deck the Heart.”

He created a fan club named "Doc's Modern Outlaws" to bring together what he describes as an "extraordinary group of people that share his vision and serve as a beacon of hope, leading the world towards a brighter, more harmonious future."

The group is open on Facebook and is hoping to do "good in the world."

“The Music’s Sounding Good Again” was released earlier this month and was inspired while driving a car coming back from work listening to a song and realizing “how much I loved how the music sounded.” He described the “vibrant” and “real” nature of the music and said that he realized that he hadn’t enjoyed music like that in a long time.

Reinhart said that it was both a “sad realization” and a “happy moment,” bringing back his enjoyment of music similar to when he was a child. The song inspired a hope to help the world however he can.

He called it an “empowerment” song and is his current personal favorite song he’s written to date.

Reinhart has written several hundred songs and has released 15 under his current stage name. Another dozen or so were released under a former band.

The singer said that he hopes to release a full album with more of a “Bob Dylan approach” with acoustics, vocals, and a lead guitar.

To find out more or to listen to the song, visit docreinhart.com/music or join the Facebook group above. It’s available on multiple music streaming services.