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.

Ms. Kerrod 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.

The 2006 Norfolk Chamber Music Festival will feature Ms Kerrod 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 with flutist Stefan Hoskuldsson and violist Junah Chung and the groundbreaking trio MAYA with flutist Sato Moughalian and percussionist John Hadfield. In 2006-2007 Ms Kerrod makes her debut with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.