Harpist Jacqueline Kerrod began her life and playing career in Johannesburg, South Africa. There she was a finalist in the ATKV Forte Music Competition and the Jim Joel Music Prize, two of the most important honors in that country. It was also in South Africa that she was awarded the highest possible scholarship by the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust Foundation. She moved to the United States in 1999 to pursue studies with Nancy Allen at Yale University where she earned her Master's Degree and Artist Diploma.

Jacqueline appears frequently with orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble, Solisti New York, and has performed at the OK Mozart Festival in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. She is a member of Perspectives Ensemble in New York, and has appeared as guest artist with Gotham Chamber Opera Company, and Argento Chamber Ensemble with whom she has also recorded.

The 2006 Norfolk Chamber Music Festival featured Jacqueline as soloist with Ransom Wilson and the festival Orchestra in Mozart's Concerto for Flute and Harp. In 2005 she was the featured soloist in the same work in Quito, Ecuador. She has also appeared as soloist with Colonial Symphony and Montclair State University Orchestra. She was the 2001 winner of the Harp Competition of the Aspen Music Festival.

She is a founding member of both Trio St. Germain, a flute, viola, harp trio and the groundbreaking MAYA, a trio comprising flute, harp, and percussion, which has undertaken a commissioning program to create repertory bringing together classical and world music, ethnic sounds, and improvisations. MAYA will be releasing their debut CD in October 2007.

In 2006-2007 Jacqueline made her debut with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. She performed with Kanye West at the Live Earth Concert 2007.

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