Conductor & Artistic Director
Theodoros Kameris
Theodoros is a Cypriot musician who began his path as an orchestral conductor in 2023 in Estonia. He gained his first professional experience as Assistant Conductor of the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra in 2024 and in February 2025 he made his debut with Musica Vivere String Orchestra in Tallinn.
In the same year, he was selected as a semi-finalist of the 59th edition of the prestigious International Competition for Young Conductors in Besançon, where he worked with the Orchestre Victor Hugo and the Orchestre Dijon Bourgogne.
Theodoros has received important artistic impulses from conductors such as Anu Tali, Martin Sieghart, Tomáš Netopil, Michalis Economou and Olari Elts and has conducted ensembles including the Athens Philharmonia Orchestra, the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Erzgebirgische Philharmonie Aue, the Sinfonietta of the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra and the Filarmonica Pitești.
His musical education began in choral conducting at the Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory in St. Petersburg, followed by a Bachelor’s degree in choral conducting at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. He is currently pursuing studies in orchestral conducting at the same institution in the class of Prof. Arvo Volmer. In summer 2025, he completed an additional Master’s degree in orchestral conducting at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre.
An exchange year at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden, where he studied with Prof. Georg Christoph Sandmann, further enriched his artistic development.
Manager
Yumiko Almuth Matsuyama
As Co-Founder and Manager of the Musica Vivere String Orchestra, Yumiko has been closely involved in the project since its very beginning. Besides, she is employed in the Press Office of the Salzburg Festival since summer 2025. Her professional path in cultural management began at the music, media and management company ProStimme GmbH Plochingen. She went on to organize her first own concert projects in Tallinn, among them a performance by the Reval Kvartet, as part of the cultural festival Saksa Kevad, supported by the German Embassy in Tallinn.
Yumiko studied Music Education and Instrumental Pedagogy at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln and is currently enrolled in Master’s studies at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden. She completed exchange programs at Sorbonne Université Paris and at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Her pedagogical professional experience includes work as a teacher at the International School of Tallinn, as a music educator at the Cologne Opera and at the Tallinna Saksa Gümnaasium.
In 2024, she graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in classical violin performance from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in the class of Prof. Mari Tampere-Bezrodny and is currently continuing her Master’s studies.