[1] The daughter of James A. Clare and Agnes McLean, she was born in Neepawa, Manitoba and was educated there and went on to study piano in Winnipeg.
Clare continued her studies in Berlin with Olga Varet-Stepanoff and Josef Lhévinne, and then, during World War I, with Ernest Hutcheson and Howard Brockway in New York City.
[1][2] Clare performed in Prague, Munich, Vienna, Budapest, Toronto, London, Scranton, New York, Vancouver and throughout western Canada.
She played an important role in establishing the Manitoba Music Teachers' Association and served as first provincial president.
Clare helped assemble the first graded books for piano examinations for the Western Board of Music.