Born in Mexico City in 1976. Graduated with honors as a pianist from the Music Department at the Universidad Veracruzana in Xalapa, Mexico. In 1996 she obtained her master´s degree at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg, Germany, supported by a grant from the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Program). At the age of eight she made her debut as a soloist of the Xalapa Symphony Orchestra with Haydn´s D-Major Concerto.

Her main teachers include Patricia Castillo, Alejandro Corona, Néstor Castañeda, Edith Picht-Axenfeld, Robert Levin, Michel Béroff and Pascal Rogé.

As a soloist Claudia Corona has performed with the major orchestras of Mexico working with conductors such as Luis Herrera de la Fuente, Enrique Diemecke, John Giordano, Jorge Mester, Francisco Savín, Alfred Savia, Fabio Mechetti, Ronald Zollman, Graziella Contratto, José Guadalupe Flores, etc. In Germany she has played several times under the conducting of Manfred Neuman. Besides her international activity as a solo performer she has produced various recordings for radio and television.

She has taught the piano for several years, both privately and in masterclasses at Emory University, Atlanta, Baylor University, Texas (U.S.A) and Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, (Mexico). Claudia Corona has won several awards and competitions in Mexico and in the U.S.

Since 1994 she has lived in Germany. She performs duets and chamber music with distinguished musicians such as Pascal Rogé, with whom she played several times the Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra by Francis Poulenc. In 2001 Corona undertook a project in Mexico to commission two Trios to the composers David Dzubay and Horacio Uribe and a Triple Concerto to Samuel Zyman.  In June 2006 she performed Zyman´s Triple Concerto in the Latin American premiere with Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional in Mexico-City.

Besides undertaking a classical repertoire with special emphasis on French music, Claudia Corona has entered the field of Latin American classical music including solo, chamber music and piano concerto repertoire. In the last years she has played the piano concerti by Mexican composers José Rolón and Samuel Zyman. A recording with these concerti is being in process.

Her recording Música Latinoamericana is recently released by NAXOS Germany.