Jessica Kerr
Jessica Kerr is a cellist with a nature-connected creative practice. Happiest when sharing music amongst the trees, Jessica’s work focuses on creating and performing music that explores and communicates our relationship with the more-than-human world, and draws audiences out into nature by musical invitation.
As creator of Stories of People and Trees, Jessica travelled Scotland collecting personal stories of our human connections to trees, and commissioned and recorded seven new works for string quartet and solo cello inspired by these stories and the trees within them. This led to further work in close collaboration with nature, and Jessica was commissioned as composer and artist in residence by Cove Park and the Argyll Rainforest Community Network; creating new music with temperate rainforest communities and performing in bird hides, yurts and ancient oak groves. 2026 sees a new musical collaboration with the seagrass meadows of Loch Craignish and the communities of life around them.
Jessica is cellist with string quartet Glisk, and a member of the cross genre GRIT Orchestra, sustaining the musical legacy of ground breaking late Scottish composer Martyn Bennett. In 2025 Jessica toured as musician in residence with Illuminate Womens Music, premiering a programme of new works on a theme of land and legend for cello and voice alongside soprano Stephanie Lamprea. Cellist for Small Acts of Love, the acclaimed 2025 production by Frances Poet and Ricky Ross that re-opened the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow, Jessica is also cellist for the Tandem Writing Collective. As an orchestral cellist Jessica has performed with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Royal Northern Sinfonia and the Halle, performing at the BBC Proms, the Edinburgh International Festival and around Europe and China. Alongside her performing work, Jessica is a longstanding senior musician at Big Noise Govanhill.
