Artist · Cello
Jessie Marino
Biography
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 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.
https://www.jessiemarino.com/