Pinkas moved to the United States as a teenager to study piano.

Her principal teachers were Russell Sherman, George Sebok, Luise Vosgerchian, Genia Bar-Niv and Rami Bar-Niv (piano), Sergiu Natra (composition), and Robert Koff (chamber music).

She performs with her husband Evan Hirsch as the Hirsch-Pinkas Piano Duo.

Her recording of Fauré's Thirteen Nocturnes was named one of the 2002's best CDs by The Boston Globe.

[3] The Wall Street Journal noted her “exquisite performance” in her “superlatively well-played” recording of Harold Shapero’s Piano Music, released on the UK label Toccata Classics.