Moriah Trenk, Artistic Advisor
Moriah Feiner Trenk currently works as a full-time Company Pianist at Pennsylvania 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 2018 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.
As a versatile musician and collaborator, Moriah enjoys a busy schedule working as an accompanist for various instrumental and vocal studios, dance classes, musical productions, and choruses. She recently 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.
Other recent engagements have included performances as a soloist and with ensembles at 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, Hunter College, and Queensborough Community College, among other venues. Moriah has been a featured performer at events honoring Alan Gilbert and members of the NY Philharmonic. Moriah also performs outreach concerts with Boston's Volunteer Musicians for the Arts, teaches private piano lessons, and is an 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 received 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. Moriah has been selected to perform in masterclasses with leading performers such as Vladimir Feltsman, Alexander Kobrin, and Carter Brey. She previously studied with Paul Ostrovsky and Sara Davis Buechner.