She is a former student of Carol Wincenc and Michel Debost, who has an excellent grasp of the French flute tradition and, at age 13, gave the Ibert flute concerto from memory, amazing jurists at the competition at which she played it. Her solo debut for Crystal Records, Flûte Agréable, finds Clayton in good company; key twentieth-century French flute literature with an estimable accompanist in pianist Ju-Ying Song and Philip Lasser's Sonata for flute of 1986, with piano support provided by the composer.