Kaytie Kerr

Biography

Kaytie Kerr is an award-winning harpist and talented music teacher. Her interest in the harp began as a simple curiosity regarding such a large instrument and quickly turned into a passion for performing and a desire to bless the lives of others through music. Kaytie was a prizewinner in the American Harp Society National Competition in 2017 before serving as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Bahía Blanca, Argentina for 18 months. Kaytie not only has extensive experience competing with the harp but has also been the recipient of numerous first-place prizes for piano and voice competitions throughout Arizona.

She has frequently performed as the principal harpist in the Brigham Young University Philharmonic Orchestra, the Brigham Young University Symphony Orchestra, University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Toronto Youth Symphony, the Phoenix Youth Symphony, and with various chamber and orchestral groups throughout Arizona, Utah and Ontario, Canada. She discovered a deep passion for teaching early on, which led her to open up a private music studio. Kaytie is currently working towards a bachelor’s degree in Harp Performance with a double major in Spanish Studies at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.