Autumn Concert Series featuring Ariadna Saenz

Join the Library for our Autumn Concert Series Friday's from September 3 to November 5th. Each concert will begin at 1 p.m. in the Winn Room. Doors will open 15 minutes prior to the performance. All performances will also be livestreamed on the Library’s Facebook Page.

On Friday, October 22, Ariana Sáenz will perform a mix of classical pieces from composers from Cuba to Poland. Enjoy favorites from Frédéric Chopin, Sergei  Rachmaninoff, Andrés Alén, and more.

Ariadna Sáenz is a Spanish / AfroBrazilian-Portuguese pianist-composer, artist and neuroscientist. She started playing piano at 5 years old as a disciple of the Mexican virtuoso concertist Maria Teresa Naranjo Ochoa (1931, Tuxpan, Jalisco - 2007, Madrid), to whom she studied with for 11 years at the Professional Conservatory of Music “Amaniel” of Madrid (Spain).  Ariadna studied at The Royal Danish Academy of Music (Copenhagen) with José Ribera, and graduated in Piano Performance and Pedagogy at The Royal Higher Conservatory of Music of Madrid in 2010.  She holds a Masters in Music Performance and Composition from The Royal Higher Conservatory of Music of Madrid & King Juan Carlos University of Madrid.

As a soloist pianist, Ariadna Sáenz has performed across Europe, Latin-America and the US. In California, she has played with The San Diego Symphony and The Los Angeles Philharmonic. She came to the USA in 2015 as a 2nd place winner's University of California Education Abroad Program Fellowship, to conduct her independent research on the neurodynamics of musical improvisation at the Swartz Center for Computational Neurosciences - The San Diego Supercomputer Center, and to perform the last stage of her PhD in Neurosciences at University of California San Diego (2016).

Her upcoming projects include the premiere of her first experimental-physical opera at Qualcomm Institute of Calit2 - UCSD (IDEAS Performance Series) that would integrate EEG headsets and nano-sensors on dancers and musicians for tracking their electrophysiological states in an improvisation & composition ensamble setting. Ariadna is also currently working on the recording of her first album of original music in which she explores her personal vocabulary beyond classical, jazz and contemporary languages that she has been trained in. She is concerned about divulging the music of her alive mentors and the role of women of color in historical and contemporary musical practices. She is also a dancer/choreographer/contact improvisation practitioner, a visual artist and a neuroscientist researcher.

Registration is recommended but not required. Please register below for this event.

**All-in person events will be subject to County of San Diego Health Department guidelines*