When she was fifteen she entered the Leipzig Conservatory in Germany, where she was a pupil of Adolph Brodsky, the Russian violinist.

She headlined the performance, which also included Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler, an American pianist, and two other Canadians, Contralto Moran Wyman, and tenor Whitney Mockridge.

[4] She chose to continue training in 1895, this time with Joachim in Berlin, with whom, by her own account, she benefited greatly and grew as a musician thanks to his skilled teaching.

This hiatus was brief, as she began performing again in 1903, and formed the Nora Clench Quartet in 1904 with Lucy Stone as second violin, Cecilia Gates on viola, and May Mukle on Cello.

[6] The Nora Clench Quartet only lasted a few years, but in that time it received high praise for its performances.

[7] The same Times article illustrated how Clench continued performing as a soloist as well, playing a violin sonata together with Percy Grainger on the piano.