Recital: Nicholas Ottersberg Enriquez '24, Baritone

NEC's students meet one-on-one each week with a faculty artist to perfect their craft. As each one leaves NEC to make their mark in the performance world, they present a full, professional recital that is free and open to the public. It's your first look at the artists of tomorrow.

Nicholas Ottersberg Enriquez '24  studies Voice with Bradley Williams and is the recipient of a scholarship made possible by the Bertha C. and Edward Rose Scholarship Fund.
 

Program note

This program tells the story of a wanderer’s journey to the sea. The ways in which this path to the unknown leads to self discovery as well as worldly discovery. How overcoming hardships and fear can broaden horizons to build resilience and trust that it will all work out in the end. While finding that we have our own place in nature, and that nature can be a good mirror for understanding ourselves. Life is a series of patterns and cycles, much like the water cycle for instance. It begins with rainfall or snow on the mountain top, morphs to become a river that flows out to the sea, and eventually returns to the sky to repeat the same cycle. Water does not let obstacles get in the way, it changes as needed and moves around them gracefully to reach its destination. This wanderer begins in the mountains with the rain and snow, follows the rivers to reach the sea, and ultimately finds a new life out on the waters. Discovering new depths within himself along the way, and finding greater purpose. He eventually returns home to land and begins a new chapter. In many ways I feel like this wanderer, embarking on this journey from the mountains of New Mexico to the sea sides of Boston. Not knowing what I was going to encounter, but trusting the path of loving singing and discovering a whole new world of possibilities. I’ve grown so much, am so grateful, and feel such deep love for all I’ve gotten to experience. Now after having been in this chapter of undergrad, it’s time to embark on new beginnings and start the next chapter. I'm eternally blessed with the unending support of my family, friends, teachers, mentors, coaches, both in Santa Fe and Boston. I love you all and can’t possibly thank you enough. Espero que disfruten mi recital. 

This is an in-person event with a private stream available to the NEC community here: https://necmusic.edu/live