Jessie Marino

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Jessie Marino is a composer, performer, and media artist. Her compositions and solo performances abstract ideas drawn from all stripes of popular culture and relish in themes of the everyday. Marino’s pieces score out sound, video, story, lighting, and staging, treating each of these elements as expandable musical materials. Her recent work focuses on sound, light and fibre.

Jessie has recently been commissioned for new works by the BBC Radio 3, The Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center in New York, Wittenertage für Neue Musik, Ultima Festival, and Lucerne Festival. In 2020 she was a recipient of a Fromm Composition Commission from Harvard University and in 2018-2019 Jessie was Artist-in-Residence at the American Academy of Rome. Her music has been performed by Pinquins, Ensemble Adapter, MusikFabrik, SCENATET, K!ART, TAK Ensemble, Plus Minus Ensemble, ox&öl, Ensemble Handwerk, KNM Ensemble, among others.

Marino performs with an idiosyncratic bevy of stringed instruments and electronics. She is the newest member of Ensemble Adapter (since 2025), and recently founded a Expanded Music/Theater duo with long time collaborator Constantin Basica, called Exquisite Peanut, the band CAOUTCHOUC, with percussionist Serge Vuille, and The Positive Reinforcement Campaign, a band based in Oslo focused on improvisation and feminist collaborative practices (with Inga Margrete Aas and Pinquins Percussion).

She studied cello at the Manhattan School of Music, composition at Wesleyan University with Alvin Lucier and Ronald Kuivila and she earned a DMA in music composition from Stanford University, working with sound artist Paul DeMarinis.

Further information can be found on the website of Jessie Marino.

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