Clare was born in Scunthorpe and began singing at the age of 5. She obtained a BMus (Hons) and MMus in research and performance from the University of Sheffield and holds an LRSM for performance. She was a member of the BBC Choir of the Year Scunthorpe Cooperative Junior Choir and the National Youth Music Theatre. Clare has performed in a number of prestigious venues including the Sydney Opera House, Glyndebourne Opera House, London Palladium, Royal Albert Hall, His Majesty's Theatre Aberdeen and the Festival of Voices in Newfoundland.
In 2012 Clare created the role of Spirit of Steel in Cycle Song by Tim Sutton, a Scunthorpe Olympiad commission. This subsequently won a 2013 Royal Philharmonic Society Award. She has also performed many other roles including Molly/Lady Ursula Epp (The Ragged Child) National Youth Music Theatre; Dragon (La Purpura de la Rosa) under the baton of Andrew Lawrence King; Bessie Throckmorton (Merrie England), The Plaintive (Trial by Jury), Yum-Yum (Mikado) and Elsie Maynard (Yeoman of the Guard) at Buxton Opera House.
Her concert performances have included works such as Requiem (Faure), Coronation Mass (Mozart), Requiem (Mozart), Elijah (Mendelssohn), Nelson Mass (Haydn), Gloria (Karl Jenkins), Theresienmesse (Haydn), Ein Deutsches Requiem (Brahms), Hymn of Praise (Mendelssohn), Requiem (Rutter). Clare has been Soprano soloist in African Sanctus (Fanshawe); Mass of the Children (Rutter), Gilbert & Sullivan Gala evenings, Stabat Mater (Poulenc), Requiem (Mozart), Rejoice in the Lamb (Britten), Gloria (Vivaldi), Five Spirituals from A Child of Our Time (Tippett), Carmina Burana (Orff), Liebeslieder Waltzer (Brahms) with guest accompanist Malcolm Martineau.
Clare has given solo recitals for Sheffield Music Club (including the first performance of Like a Touch of Rain, a song cycle by Stephen Godward, written especially for Clare) and yearly recitals in the Lunchtime Concert Series at Doncaster Museum. She has been guest soloist in Gala concerts with Dore Male Voice Choir, Sheffield and Scunthorpe Male Voice Choir. In recent years Clare has given recitals and masterclasses at Bishop Grosseteste University. She was a finalist in the Voice of the Future competition at the International Eisteddfod held in Llangollen in 2014 and a prize winner in the John Kerr English Song Award 2016.
In 2012 Clare created the role of Spirit of Steel in Cycle Song by Tim Sutton, a Scunthorpe Olympiad commission. This subsequently won a 2013 Royal Philharmonic Society Award. She has also performed many other roles including Molly/Lady Ursula Epp (The Ragged Child) National Youth Music Theatre; Dragon (La Purpura de la Rosa) under the baton of Andrew Lawrence King; Bessie Throckmorton (Merrie England), The Plaintive (Trial by Jury), Yum-Yum (Mikado) and Elsie Maynard (Yeoman of the Guard) at Buxton Opera House.
Her concert performances have included works such as Requiem (Faure), Coronation Mass (Mozart), Requiem (Mozart), Elijah (Mendelssohn), Nelson Mass (Haydn), Gloria (Karl Jenkins), Theresienmesse (Haydn), Ein Deutsches Requiem (Brahms), Hymn of Praise (Mendelssohn), Requiem (Rutter). Clare has been Soprano soloist in African Sanctus (Fanshawe); Mass of the Children (Rutter), Gilbert & Sullivan Gala evenings, Stabat Mater (Poulenc), Requiem (Mozart), Rejoice in the Lamb (Britten), Gloria (Vivaldi), Five Spirituals from A Child of Our Time (Tippett), Carmina Burana (Orff), Liebeslieder Waltzer (Brahms) with guest accompanist Malcolm Martineau.
Clare has given solo recitals for Sheffield Music Club (including the first performance of Like a Touch of Rain, a song cycle by Stephen Godward, written especially for Clare) and yearly recitals in the Lunchtime Concert Series at Doncaster Museum. She has been guest soloist in Gala concerts with Dore Male Voice Choir, Sheffield and Scunthorpe Male Voice Choir. In recent years Clare has given recitals and masterclasses at Bishop Grosseteste University. She was a finalist in the Voice of the Future competition at the International Eisteddfod held in Llangollen in 2014 and a prize winner in the John Kerr English Song Award 2016.