Praised for her "fluid and graceful style” (Villages-News.com), pianist Moriah Trenk maintains a vibrant career as a soloist, chamber musician, and collaborative artist. She has performed at premier venues and concert series nationwide including Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall, Bargemusic, Jordan Hall, the Kennedy Center, and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. She was recently featured as a performer on WFMT, Chicago’s classical music radio station, with oboist Oliver Talukder. She is a featured performer on Briefly Gorgeous, which was released by Cedille Records this fall. This winter she will join the national tour Love Actually in Concert, and will perform in over 30 cities around the U.S.
Trenk works as a staff pianist at New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, The Juilliard School, School of American Ballet, and Steps on Broadway. At the New York City Ballet, she recently served as a rehearsal pianist in close collaboration with violinist Hilary Hahn on dancer/choreographer Tiler Peck’s new ballet set to Eduard Lalo’s Symphonie espagnole. Trenk has also served as Company Pianist at the Philadelphia Ballet and collaborated with BalletX, Boston Ballet, New Jersey Ballet, Mark Morris Dance Group, and New York Theatre Ballet. She has also worked as a staff pianist at Boston Conservatory at Berklee, and performed in theater productions, included West Side Story, Songs for a New World, Artemisia LeFay’s ‘Ghosts of Weimar Past.’
Committed to civic engagement and community outreach, she is a frequent performer with Concerts in Motion, has performed with Boston’s Volunteer Musicians for the Arts, and served as an accompanist for Eureka Ensemble’s Women's Chorus. She especially enjoys exploring and performing works by underrepresented and contemporary composers. Trenk’s festival and residency appearances include the Vail Dance Festival, Avaloch Farm Music Institute, Manchester Music Festival, Garth Newel Music Center, and National Music Festival. Trenk holds a Master’s degree in Collaborative Piano from the New England Conservatory and a Bachelor’s in Piano Performance from New York University. She was a student of Seymour Bernstein, Grant Wenaus, Paul Ostrovsky, and Sara Davis Buechner.