Bio Marie Incontrera, composer and pianist, is a native of Brooklyn, New York.  Her music has been performed throughout the United States and internationally at respected venues including Symphony Space, Christ and St. Stephen's Church, Galapagos Art Space, Roulette, the Kaufman Cente, and at the Meridian Festival in Bucharest, Romania.  She has been a featured composer on the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, Electronic Music Midwest, the International Electroacoustic Music Festival, the Hartford Women Composers' Festival, as part of Max Lifchitz's North-South Consonance Series, and won Remarkable Theater Brigade's Art Song Competition.  Her Music has also been performed and read by the New York Miniaturist Ensemble, New York Youth Symphony's Symphony Singers, Remarkable Theater Brigade, American Composers' Orchestra, and New York Youth Symphony Players and Basso Moderno.  Marie serves as Opera Liaison for the New York Chamber Virtuosi, and is the General Director and Composer in Residence of Alphabet soup Productions.  She has been a recipient of the Miriam Gideon Composition Award for women composers.   In 2010, Marie will be the recipient of Meet the Composer's Metlife Creative Connections to be a featured guest composer and speaker at the Hartford Women Composers' Festival.  She has also been invited to the Virginia Arts' Festival John Duffy Composers' Institute, where a scene from her new opera, Paul's Case, will be workshopped and performed under the guidance of seasoned opera composers John Duffy, Libby Larsen, Fred Ho, and others.