Jessie Marino (b.1984) is a musician who grew up in Long Island, New York. Her recent work explores the interplay of duality, conflict and balance between humans through her preferred medium, experimental theater-music. Jessie's work incorporates strong visual elements, including light, color and motion, with a base of both choreographed and improvised musical material. In 2008 she founded the performance art duo On Structure (NYC), which toured in August 2009 to the southeastern United States and has been performing in galleries and concert venues around New York City. Jessie holds a Bachelor's degree in Cello Performance from the Manhattan School of Music. In 2006 she was awarded the Stamas Family Scholarship from Lincoln Center and recently received support from Meet the Composer, the Strategic Opportunity Stipend (NYFA), the Northern Manhattan Artists Alliances and the Ora Lerman Charitable Trust. As a cellist, Jessie performs regularly with Ensemble Pamplemousse and the Wet Ink Ensemble (NYC ) and has worked alongside of influential composers such as Alvin Lucier, Pierre Boulez, Beat Furrer, and Bernhard Lang. Jessie has also played with the SEM Ensemble(NYC), Forum Zeitgenoessicher Musik(Leipzig), KlangExectuiv (Berlin), the Ostravska Banda (CZ), and with members of the Klangforum Wien (Vienna). Jessie currently resides in New York City where she collaborates regularly with amazing composers and performers from around the world.
To view her work, please visit www.jessiemarino.com
