"Lively authenticity" is one commentator's description of René Clemencic's musical performance aesthetic. The Viennese-born recorder player, composer, teacher, and conductor has sought this authentic mode of musical expression in an extremely wide range of musical experiences. Trained as a recorder player and keyboardist, earning a Ph.D. from Vienna University in 1956, Clemencic performs on a variety of early flutes, recorders, and other woodwind instruments.
The Clemencic Consort is an early music group established in Vienna. It was founded in 1969 by René Clemencic after he stopped directing his previous group, the Ensemble Musica Antiqua.