Otero Arts to host the live music event event of Footprints.

 Jessika Brust has been charming audiences around the world, by land and by sea, for nearly three decades. She landed her first regular gig singing in a band at the tender age of seven and has been on stage nonstop ever since. Her study of classical music began when she picked up the violin and worked her way through the Suzuki curriculum by high school graduation.

​Jessika attended Elon University, majoring in Environmental Studies, and minoring in music and theatre. It was during this time that she first became addicted to singing opera, while studying under Jessica Van Ord, Pamela Henderson, Lisbeth Brittian Carter; and workshopping the roles of Rosalinda from Die Fledermaus and Liu from Turandot under Dr. Hallie Hogan.​Also, while at Elon, Jessika was fortunate enough to be taken under the wing of the jazz great, vibraphonist Jon Metzger. While in his classes, she coordinated jazz combos, studied jazz theory, began to improvise, and fronted the big band. 

All the common sense and street smarts she ever needed to survive as a musician, she learned from the jazz department.​Upon graduation, Jessika attended the American Institute for Musical Studies in Graz, Austria, where she concentrated on opera performance with the instruction of Alison Acord and the coaching of John Kolody and Wayne Wyman.

Professionally, Jessika toured the U.S. fronting a show band for many years and began playing with other ensembles of several branches of music. Simultaneously she picked up roles like Mrs. Cratchit in Ira David Wood III’s musical rendition of A Christmas Carol, Alma in The Music Man. Jessika Brust, Vocals Reuben Galvan, Drums, Poncho Romero, Trumpet, Flugelhorn Miguel Torres, PianoJosh Carter, Sax, Christian Chesanek, Bass (not pictured)