Ainoa Padrón began her musical studies at the Higher Conservatory of Music in her hometown, Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Under the guidance of her teachers Cristina Vargas and Jesús Ángel Rodríguez, she concluded her piano and chamber music studies with honours.
In 2002, she continued her piano training in Germany with Pi-Hsien Chen at Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg and came into contact with vocal accompaniment, receiving classes from Professor Hans Peter Müller. She has been awarded scholarships by the foundations Yehudi Menuhin Life Music Now, Richard Wagner Verband and Heidelberger Frühling. She has also attended numerous advanced courses taught by teachers of piano such as Salomon Mikowsky, Guillermo González, Miquel Farré, Bella Davidovich and Vitali Margulis. Her Lied (vocal accompaniment) teachers were Wolfram Rieger, Brigitte Fassbaender, Udo Reinemann, Peter Schreier, Thomas Hampson, Graham Johnson and Konrad Richter.
After her specialisation in vocal accompaniment at Hochschule für Musik und Tanz of Cologne, studying under Professor Jürgen Glauß in 2011, her dedication to the Lied garnered awards at different international competitions. She received the third prize, alongside tenor Javier Alonso, at the 2010 Hugo Wolf International Lied Competition in Stuttgart, the second prize with soprano Karola Pavone at the International Spoken Singing Contest in Sankt Augustin in 2015, first prize at the Rhein-Rhur Competition in 2017, and she was considered the best accompanying pianist in the 2010 Felix Mendelssohn Competition for Vocal Ensembles in Berlin and at the 2013 International Johannes Brahms Competition in Pörtschach, Austria.
Likewise, she does recordings for German radio (WDR, SWR), for RTVE, and has done several CDs for the RALS-Musical Creation in the Canary Islands project, featuring original works by Canary Island’s composers from the first half of the nineteenth century, performed on a Broadwood piano from 1812. She has also worked for Columna Música, with the CD entitled El mar y la infancia (The Sea and Childhood) alongside tenor Javier Alonso, and she has done pieces by Schubert, Montsalvatge, and García Abril, as well as working for the Spanish Society of Musicology (SEDEM) with a solo piano repertoire by the composers of the Madrid-based ‘Grupo de los Ocho’ (the Group of Eight).
In terms of her concert activity, she combines vocal repertoire and solos, with some of her most important performances include tours around Europe with tenor Julian Prégardien, as well as Grieg's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra with the Junge Philharmonie of Neuwied.
She currently lives in Cologne, Germany and is a teacher of corepetition and a piano accompanist for the Robert Schumann Hochschule für Musik in Düsseldorf.