Louise Lincoln Kerr (April 24, 1892 – December 10, 1977) was an American musician, composer, and philanthropist from Cleveland, Ohio.

[10] She was inducted into the Arizona Women's Hall of Fame on October 21, 2004[11] and was nominated by conductor and musicologist Carolyn Waters Broe.

Lincoln furthered her skills under Sol Marcosson, a concertmaster of the early Cleveland Symphony Orchestra (CSO).

Louise Lincoln attended Barnard College in the year 1910 in New York City, an institution with strong ties to Columbia University.

She left New York around 1913 due to the death of her mother and to join the Cleveland Municipal Orchestra under the direction of Christiaan Timmner.

[2] When Timmner was appointed conductor of the early CSO, he extended an invitation to Lincoln to join his violin section.

There Louise Kerr met with noted pianists and composers who were recording their music, including Sergei Prokofiev, Alfred Cortot, and George Gershwin.

[3] Kerr's symphonic piece "Arizona Profiles" was commissioned for the groundbreaking dedication ceremonies of the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts in 1968 and premiered by the Phoenix Symphony.

[2] Four Seasons Orchestra performed her Enchanted Mesa at the concert of Surprise Stadium in the year 2004[15] and also at Phoenix in June 2009.

[18] Louise Lincoln Kerr died at her ranch in Cottonwood, Arizona, on December 10, 1977, of heart failure.

She was a major benefactor of the School of Music at Arizona State University by establishing the Kerr Memorial Scholarship Fund.

[22] Louise Lincoln's compositional style has been determined as being tonal and the same is also found to be influenced by romantic and classical genre.

Five Character Pieces for Viola and Piano, edited by Carolyn Waters Broe, is the first of Kerr's published works.

[24] Piano solo[6][25] Duos[6][25] Las Fatigas del Querer, Habanera in A minor and F minor, Happy Birthday to You (1971), Hebrew Song (Sept. 1942), In Memoriam, Legend, Lingara, Marche Mignonne, Moong-wah (Hopi Lullaby about a Hopi woman giving birth, composed 1967), Prelude (Version I & II), [(1971) for Diane Sullivan violin and Betty Cummings piano] Presto (written between 1970 and 1975), Rigaudon, Spanish Dance (Spanish Folk Song) (1972 or 73), Tempo di Valse, and Waltz.