Kate Clark completed a Bachelor Music degree at Sydney University on modern and baroque flutes before leaving Australia in 1986 to study baroque flute with Barthold Kuijken at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. She completed the Soloist's diploma "cum laude" in 1990 and then spent three years studying and researching the renaissance flute and its repertoire under the guidance of Anne Smith at the Schola Cantorum in Basel. She won the first prize at the Brugge International Early Music Competeition in 1993.
Kate Clark has performed with many european orchestras including the Freiburger Barock Orchester, Concerto Köln and the Rheinische Kantorei. Since 1994 she has been solo flutist with Les Musiciens du Louvre with whom she has toured extensively in Europe and the United States, also as soloist in concertos, and participated in their many recordings, notably of 18th c. French opera and cantata repertoire. Chamber music recitals/recordings have been with, among others, The Reicha Trio (Simon Standage and Thomas Fritzch), harpsichordists Pieter Jan Belder and Shalev Ad'El, the australian Ensemble of the Classic Era, Wilbert Hazelzet and Jaques Ogg. She is a regular guest soloist with The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra.
As a renaissance flute player she has joined Cantus Cölln for recordings of Shütz' Psalms of David, Monteverdi's Vespers and the premiere recording of Leipzig Canatas before Bach. She is the artistic director of "The Attaignant Consort", formed in 1998 to perform 16th c. chanson, dance and polychoral repertoire.
Kate Clark has taught baroque and renaissance flutes at the Royal Conservatoire since 1996. She teaches regularly at the summerschools of Zell ad Pram (Austria) and Urbino, and has been a guest lecturer and teacher at numerous other schools/courses in Europe and abroad.
She has two children and currently lives in Amsterdam.