Claudia Calderon

After studying in Cali and Bogotá, Calderon went to Europe, graduating from the Musikhochschule in Hannover, Germany,^[2] and attending courses in Italy supervised by György Sándor. On her return to Venezuela she became a professor at the Simón Bolívar Conservatory and at the Instituto Universitario de Estudios Musicales in Caracas.^[3]

She has recorded three albums of her own compositions based on traditional music of Venezuela and Colombia, as well as a disc of solo piano works of the Colombian composer Pedro Morales Pino.^[3]

• El piano llanero (Fundación Bigott, 2001)
• Piano de Pedro Morales Pino (Banco de la República, 2004)
• El piano llanero II (Fundación Bigott, 2007)
• Piano xarocho (Fundación Arpamerica, 2011)