Jessie Marino is a Berlin-based composer, performer, and media artist. Her compositions and solo performances abstract ideas drawn from all stripes of popular culture and political discourse, girded by a definitively humanistic sensibility rife with equal doses of wit and pathos. Marino’s pieces score out sound, video, story, lighting, and staging, treating each of these elements as expandable musical materials. She transcends the conventional materials of composition to help audiences locate music in the most commonplace activities and relations. In 2025, Jessie became a core collaborating member of Ensemble Adapter. She was a 2023/2024 artists-in-residence at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC). In 2020 she was a recipient of a Fromm Composition Commission from Harvard University and in 2018 Marino received the Rome Prize in music composition at the American Academy in Rome. She has recently been commissioned by the BBC Radio 4, Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik, Donaueschingen MusikTage, Ensemble Musikfabrik (DE), Plus Minus (UK), SPOR Festival (DK), Ensemble Tzara (CH), Speak Percussion (AU), ECLAT Festival (DE), Decoder Ensemble (DE), Ultima Festival (NO), Darmstadt International Summer Course (DE), Borealis Festival (NO), Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (UK), and Transit Festival (BE). Her work has made recent appearances at the BAM! Festival for MusikTheater (Berlin), Festival Musica (Strasbourg), Wittenertage für Neue Kammermusik(DE), Heroines of Sound (Berlin/MX), Elbphilharmonie (Hamburg DE) and her pieces have been performed by formidable new music ensembles such as Pinquins (NO), Speak Percussion (AU), KNM Ensemble (DE), Plus Minus (UK), SCENATET (DK), SoundInitiative (FR), We Spoke Percussion (UK), Decoder Ensemble (DE), Ensemble Adapter (DE), Die Ordnung Der Dinge (DE), and Ensemble Pamplemousse (USA). Marino studied Cello with David Geber and 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.