Praised for her "fluid and graceful style," Moriah Trenk has performed as a soloist and with ensembles at venues and concert series including Bargemusic, Candlelight Concerts by Fever, Jordan Hall, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, Steinway Hall, among other venues. She currently works with New York City Ballet, New York Theatre Ballet, and American Ballet Theatre. She has worked as Company Pianist at Philadelphia Ballet, and has also collaborated with BalletX, Boston Ballet, New Jersey Ballet, and Mark Morris Dance Group. Moriah was recently featured as a performer on WFMT, Chicago’s classical music radio station. She has been selected to record a debut album on Cedille Records, in collaboration with oboist Oliver Talukder.
Moriah has also performed in theater and cabaret productions, including West Side Story, Songs for a New World, and Artemisia LeFay’s ‘Ghosts of Weimar Past’. Moriah has performed outreach concerts with Boston's Volunteer Musicians for the Arts, and was accompanist for The Woman’s Chorus; a social initiative launched by Eureka Ensemble that enables women experiencing homelessness and poverty the opportunity to rehearse and perform in a chorus.
In recent summers, Moriah was selected as an Artist in Residence at Avaloch Farm Music Institute. She has also been awarded full scholarships to study chamber music at The National Music Festival at Washington College, Manchester Music Festival's Young Artist Program in Manchester, Vermont and the Emerging Artists Fellowship Program at Garth Newel Music Center in Hot Springs, Virginia. Moriah is a prizewinner of various competitions; including the Hudson Valley Music Club competition, the NYU Art of Solo and Collaborative Piano Award, the Yonkers Concerto Competition, the YWCA and Korean Daily News Piano Competition, the International Concert Alliance Piano Competition, and runner up in the Westfield Concerto Competition. She has performed in masterclasses for leading performers such as Vladimir Feltsman, Alexander Kobrin, and Carter Brey.
Moriah completed her Master's Degree in Collaborative Piano at New England Conservatory of Music, where she received a merit scholarship to study with Cameron Stowe and Jonathan Feldman. As a recipient of New England Conservatory's Community Performances and Partnerships Fellowship, Moriah performed interactive music programs throughout Boston. She received her Bachelor of Music degree from New York University where she was a student of Seymour Bernstein and Grant Wenaus. She previously studied with Paul Ostrovsky and Sara Davis Buechner.