Pianist Enriqueta Somarriba thrives in a prolific and versatile international career, as a sought-after performer and music educator, performing regularly as a soloist and chamber musician in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Auditorio Nacional in Madrid, Organization of American States in Washington D.C., Cervantes Institute of New York, State Theatre New Jersey, Richardson Auditorium in Princeton, Roulette in Brooklyn, NYC, Sala dei Notari in Perugia, Italy, and in music festivals like the Festival de Música y Danza de Granada and Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical in Spain, and the CIBAR Festival in Veracruz, México.

As a soloist, Somarriba has performed with the Orquesta Andrés Segovia, Virtuosi Brunensis Orchestra, Orquesta Fórum Musikae and Rutgers Symphonic Orchestra. Her performances have been broadcasted in the Spanish National Radio, 98.7 WFMT Chicago, Veracruz Television-Radio, and she has recorded for MSR Classics' The Four-Hand Piano Music by composer Paul Reale in collaboration with The Center for Musical Excellence. Somarriba also recently recorded as a soloist for the soundtrack of the Netflix feature film Dancing on Glass by composer Iván Palomares, which was nominated for the Spanish Film Academy Awards (‘Goyas’) in 2023. As a chamber musician, she performs regularly with members of the Metropolitan Opera and Philadelphia Orchestras.

With the mission to promote Ibero-American music in the U.S., Somarriba has delivered lecture-recitals with emphasis on new music by Spanish and Latin-American composers in institutions like Cornell University, Manhattan School of Music, Rutgers University, Georgetown University, University of Michigan, and dozens of K-12 schools. She often includes in her programs music by living composers such as Benet Casablancas, Mercedes Zavala, Tania León, Roberto Sierra, Vijay Iyer, Catalina Mayorga, Teresa Catalán, Ricardo Lorenz, and Virginia Johnston. Somarriba has also dedicated research and efforts in bringing forth music by lesser-known composers who deserve more presence in concert programs, such as Isidro Maiztegui, Valerie Capers, Ruth Crawford-Seeguer, Joaquín Nin-Culmell, Rosa García-Ascot, Roberto Gerhard, Salvador Bacarisse, George Walker, and Julián Bautista.

A devoted educator, Somarriba currently holds the position of Director of Education at SpeakMusic Conservatory in NJ, where she focuses on developing music programs for a diverse community of students, while being part of the school’s piano faculty since 2015. She is an official Steinway & Sons educational partner and a board member of the Piano Teachers Congress of New York.

Somarriba has earned degrees from the Madrid Royal Conservatory (B.M.), Chicago College of Performing Arts (M.M.) Manhattan School of Music (P.S.C.) and Rutgers University (D.M.A.), studying with Fernando Puchol, Solomon Mikowsky, and Min K.