Chair, Board of Directors | Co-founder

m.sumareva@kaleidoscopemusart.com

Pianist Maria Sumareva has been heard as a soloist and as a collaborative pianist in Moldova, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Romania, Germany, Hungary, and across the United States. Her solo and chamber music repertory reflects her versatile musical interests spanning from Baroque to newly composed works. Ms. Sumareva has made appearances in international festivals including the Budapest Spring Festival (Hungary), Les Nuits Pianistiques, International Festival of Contemporary Music (Moldova), Northern Lights Music Festival, Festival Miami, and Festival Baltimore (U.S.A.). Some of her live performances were broadcast by Moldovan, Romanian, and Hungarian radio and television posts. Ms. Sumareva has received numerous awards at national and international competitions in Europe and the United States. Winning the 2013 Graduate Presser Music Award at the University of Miami made possible her recording debut with “The 35 Keyboard Sonatinas by J.A. Benda” (the first recording of the complete set), released on Élan Recordings in 2015.
Maria Sumareva holds Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from the Frost School of Music (University of Miami), as well as undergraduate and graduate degrees in piano performance from Rowan University and Indiana University - Bloomington. Her teachers and mentors include Lia Oxinoit, Anatol Lapikus, Irina Bivol, Veda Zuponcic, Menahem Pressler, Naoko Takao, and Santiago Rodriguez. She has received awards and scholarships from the attended educational institutions in the U.S., as well as from the Moldovan Government and Ministry of Culture. Since January 2018, Dr. Sumareva is on the piano faculty of Rowan University.

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Brazilian composer Rodrigo Bussad is the recipient of numerous awards. His work Loin, for amplified ensemble, won the 2014 American Prize in Composition, Student Chamber Music Division; Depois da Chuva was the winner of the 2013 Frost Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition and the recipient of the second prize at the 2014 American Prize in Orchestral Music Student Division; Urizen was awarded the second place in the 2013 American Prize in the Chamber Music Student Division. Bussad is also the winning composer of the 2015 Valencia International Performance Academy (VIPA), selected by a board of composers from the Ithaca College and Eastman School of Music.  Bussad was a visiting composer at festivals in North/South America and Europe. He has presented his works and has given lectures in the North/South America, Europe, and Asia.  He has received commissions by renowned ensembles and performers such as the Brower Trio B3, cross.artEnsemble, Ensemble Paramirabo, NanaFormosa Percussion Duo, Composit Ensemble, the Ithaca College Contemporary Ensemble (ICCE), the NOMOS Ensemble, Svet Stoyanov, Céline Papion, Ermis Theodorakis, Allison Balcetis, and Pedro Gadelha. Bussad holds a Masters Degree in Theory and Composition from the Frost School of Music (UM), where he studied with Dr. Lansing McLoskey. This year he will begin his PhD studies at the University of Chicago.

João Campos was born in 1989 in Miami, but raised in São Paulo, Brazil, where he initiated his musical and artistic studies. At the age 16 he went to study in Hungary on AFS Intercultural Program. There he had an opportunity to intensify his piano studies at Dohnányi Ernő Zeneművészeti Szakközépiskola under the instructions of Ukranian pianist and painter Borscs Ljubomir. During his five years in Budapest he received prizes in competitions for both piano and drawing. Since 2010 he has been living in Miami and studying Piano Performance under the instruction of pianist Santiago Rodriguez, and Studio Arts. In 2015 he was awarded the William Oberman Family Endowed Prize and one of his paintings was selected as a finalist at the International Donkey Art Prize. At the 2016 Student Annual Exhibition his painting (experiment) 23 or Dutch Scooter was awarded “Best Painting in Show.” The juror of the exhibition, artist Michelle Weinberg, wrote that “a flexible tension between abstraction and representation in João Campos’ (experiment) 23 or Dutch Scooter suggested bolder and more enigmatic works to come.”

Luca Cubisino is a polyhedral and versatile artist, whose path is paved with performance, teaching, and research. Prize winner in nearly twenty national and international piano competitions, Luca Cubisino has played in prestigious venues such as Teatro Massimo “V. Bellini” in Catania, Concertgebouw de Doelen in Rotterdam, Wiener Saal in Salzburg, Wertheim Concert Hall in Miami, and other venues in Bologna, Leipzig, New York, Austin, Atlanta, etc. His musicianship has benefited from lessons and master classes given by Antonella Scuderi, Flavio Meniconi, Franco Scala, Aquiles Delle Vigne, François-Joël Thiollier, Antonio Ballista, Choong-Mo Kang, Gerald Fauth, Bruno Canino, Enrico Pace, Anton Nel, Boris Slutsky, Marina Lomazov, and others.
Born in Italy, Luca Cubisino earned undergraduate (B.M.) and graduate (M.M.) degrees in his home country. Additionally, he earned two Master’s degrees at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Rotterdam and at Texas State University, where he was awarded the 2014 “Piano Achievement Award”. Recently, he has earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Keyboard Performance at the Frost School of Music, where he studied with Professors Tian Ying and Kevin Kenner and served as a Teaching Assistant.
Luca Cubisino collaborates with various musical organizations, including AmiCa in Sicily, of which he is the Artistic Director (amicafest.com), San Giacomo Festival in Bologna, which organizes almost two hundred concerts every year (sangiacomofestival.it), and Kaleidoscope MusArt in Miami, which focuses its activity mostly on contemporary classical music (kaleidoscopemusart.com).
Jury member in several piano competitions, Luca Cubisino has given master classes for Grumo Festival in Tesero (Italy) and for the Miami Conservatory of Music in Miami. He is also the 2016 winner of the Presser Award at the University of Miami for his project of publishing and recording Ottorino Respighi’s early piano works.
Currently, he teaches at the Preparatory Program of the Frost School of Music, University of Miami.

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at Karjaka Studios

Known for his versatility as a pianist and harpsichordist, Andrew Rosenblum excels as both a soloist and collaborative artist in a repertoire ranging from the Renaissance to the modern day.
Andrew won 2nd Prize in the harpsichord category of the 2018 International Bach Competition in Leipzig, Germany. In 2017, he won 2nd Prize in the harpsichord category of the Prague Spring International Music Competition, as well as the prize for the best performance of Harpsycho by Petr Wajsar, which was commissioned for the competition. He has appeared as harpsichord soloist with the Leipziger Barockorchester, the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Orchestra, Collegium 1704, and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago.
Active in the new music community in Chicago, Andrew performed in all three concerts of the 2017 Chicago Ustvolskaya Festival, and in February 2018 he performed in the Julius Eastman Portrait Concert at the Chicago Cultural Center.
Earning praise for his “delicately spun out” and “controlled rendition,” Andrew made his conducting debut, in September 2017, in the New York Opera Society’s production of Gisle Kverndokk's opera Letters from Ruth at the National Gallery of Art. He has performed vocal recitals at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, Alice Tully Hall, and The Kennedy Center.
Andrew works as a rehearsal pianist for the Chicago Symphony and the Music of the Baroque Chorus. He plays continuo for the Music of the Baroque Orchestra, Haymarket Opera, and Third Coast Baroque. Since 2015, he has been on the piano faculty of the Heifetz International Music Institute, and he has previously been on the piano staff of the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Northwestern University, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus.

Laura Keith received her doctorate in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from the University of Miami as a student of Ivan Davis and Rosalina Sackstein. She studied the harpsichord and musicology with Professor Frank Cooper. The subject of her doctoral dissertation was Mana-Zucca, a child prodigy pianist and composer who was integral in bringing classical music to Miami in the 1920s.
As a Steinway Educational Partner, Dr. Keith has maintained an active harpsichord and piano studio since 1980. Her students range in age from 3 years old to adults. Dr. Keith recently gave a lecture recital in Portland, OR, at the National College Music Society Conference, and performed in the Miami Civic Music Piano Gala Concert at UM’s Gusman Hall.

Dr. Lewitus is an entrepreneur with deep roots in the world of classical music and the arts. He was born in Lima, Peru to a family of artists—his father, Hans Lewitus, was a professor at the Lima Conservatory of Music and a founding member of the Peruvian Symphony Orchestra, and his mother, Eva Heller de Lewitus, is a retired photographer.
Dr. Lewitus is a graduate of the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, where he received his medical degree in 1976. He completed his pediatric residency in New York and was a practicing pediatrician in Massachusetts for over 35 years until his retirement in 2016. He served as Chief of Pediatrics at Marlborough Hospital and later became an active board member and Pediatric Medical Director with the MetroWest Physicians Organization. Dr. Lewitus is the author of What Does the Sign Say?, a children’s book recipient of the Moonbeam Award in 2008 that has sold over 18,000 copies. Additionally, he developed and patented Toothfinder, a device to identify the presence of teeth in newborns and infants.
Dr. Lewitus currently serves on the Board of the Leadership Circle of the Boston Conservatory at Berklee and on the Board of Directors of Kaleidoscope MusArt. Since his retirement, Dr. Lewitus has actively pursued his interest in music, which includes the production of a CD of Hans Lewitus’ arrangements of Latin-American music, Latin Music for Recorders, and his instrumental role in the recent publication of Lewitus’ arrangements of Slovak music for clarinet.
In an effort to support the new generation of musicians, Dr. Lewitus and his wife, Marla, have endowed a scholarship for one piano student at the Boston Conservatory. Since 2011, Dr. Lewitus has also been a supporter of the Vivace Vilnius Music Festival in Vilnius, Lithuania, and has sponsored recitals for Boston Conservatory piano students in Lima, Peru and in San Juan, Puerto Rico.