[2] Her mother, a trombonist, gave Reinhart her first brass lessons on the slide cornet aged two and a half years.

[3] A Fulbright Scholarship enabled her to travel to Austria to study with Helmut Wobisch [de] at the Vienna Music Academy, where she was the first female brass player to graduate with distinction.

[3] Reinhart's career continued after university, with work in television programs and in orchestras across the U.S.[3] Television work included: several installments of Fanfare, a 1965 musical variety series hosted by the popular trumpet player Al Hirt; one episode of To Tell the Truth in 1961; and appearances in the series Musik!

[3] Reinhart gave the premiere performance of Gottfried von Einem's Geistliche Sonate (Sacred Sonata) in 1974.

[10] When she became engaged to fellow trumpeter Mannfred Stoppacher [de], critics suggested that he was the reason for her success, rather than her own achievements.