Moriah Trenk currently works as a full-time Company Pianist at Philadelphia Ballet. She has also worked as a guest pianist at Boston Ballet. Previously, Moriah held a position at Boston Ballet School and as a staff pianist at Boston Conservatory at Berklee. She was recently featured in a solo performance at The Villages, Florida, as a prizewinner of the Enchanted Evening concert series, where she performed for a packed audience of over 850 people. Pauline Pan, director of the Opera Club at the Villages said, “Moriah Trenk’s playing was out of this world. Her performance is indelibly etched in my memory. Bravo!” In a concert review by Tony Violanti of the Villages-news.com, Moriah was praised for her “fluid and graceful style” in performance of Chopin and Rachmaninoff.
Other recent engagements have included performances as a soloist and with ensembles at Bargemusic, Candlelight Concerts by Fever, Pregones Theater, Mallery Concert Series at Rutgers University, Jordan Hall, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, Steinway Hall, Wagner College of Music in Staten Island, Loewe Theater, Merkin Concert Hall, and Hunter College, among other venues. Moriah has been a featured performer at events honoring Alan Gilbert and members of the NY Philharmonic. She 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 been selected to perform in masterclasses with 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.