Claire Wells grew up in Plano, Texas, where she started learning the violin and piano at the age of three. She studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School in England. After that, she moved to Germany to study with the Romanian virtuoso and teacher Mihaela Martin at the Cologne Hochschule für Musik und Tanz and the Kronberg Academy. She is the Mendelssohn-Prize 1st Prize and Commission Prize winner at the 2021 Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Competition, the 2nd Prize winner at the 2023 Michael Hill International Violin Competition and the 2023 violin scholarship winner of the Mozart Gesellschaft Dortmund. She has performed with major orchestras, including the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, Jalisco Philharmonic and Shen Zhen Symphony Orchestra.