Chloe Chousmer-Kerr - Professional Harpist

Professional Harpist

Chloe Chousmer-Kerr playing the harp

Having started playing the harp at age 7, Chloe excelled throughout her teenage years and went on to win competitions such as the Mid-Somerset Festival in Bath and a music scholarship to study at the prestigious Millfield School in Somerset. When she left school, Chloe briefly studied Economics and Sociology at the University of Liverpool before realising that her true passion lay in music and began studying with at Trinity Laban Conservatoire in London and followed this with a master’s degree at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Throughout her time at conservatoire, Chloe had the pleasure of participating in master classes with Elizabeth Fontan Binoche, Heidi Krutzen, Sylvain Blassel, Fabrice Pierre, Hugh Webb, Marie Pierre-Langlamet, Alex Rider and Veronika Lemishenko.

Now based in Warwick, Chloe is pleased to have won the 2025 Renié Harp prize and enjoys playing regularly with orchestras in the Midlands, London and the South-West and is happy to be this years academist with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.