She entered the Paris Conservatory at the age of ten, and obtained five first prizes there.
In 1945, she formed a celebrated piano duo[1] with Geneviève Joy, who married French composer Henri Dutilleux (1916–2013) the following year.
Robin collaborated with the singers Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Gérard Souzay as a lieder accompanist.
She was best known as a performer of French modernist music and of the works of Gabriel Fauré.
Jacqueline Robin married the composer Paul Bonneau on 22 January 1940 in Evreux.