Lepo Sumera

Lepo Sumera (8 May 1950 – 2 June 2000) was an Estonian composer and teacher.

He was born in Tallinn and studied with Veljo Tormis in his teens, and from 1968, with Heino Eller at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (then Tallinn State Conservatory).

He then did postgraduate study at the Moscow Conservatory (1979–1982) with the Russian composer Roman Ledenev.

[1][2][3] He is considered one of Estonia's most renowned composers along with Heino Eller, Eduard Tubin and Arvo Pärt,[4] he was also his country's Minister of Culture from 1988 to 1992 during the days of the Singing Revolution.

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