Introducing DVSSIMA

Pax et bonum.

DVSSIMA, LLC is a contemporary salon house founded by composer and vocalist Dr. Stephanie Susberich, devoted to the cultivation of inner form, resonance, and lived beauty.

Rooted in music, yet extending beyond it, DVSSIMA is a couture creative house where sound, intellect, spirituality, and aesthetic life coalesce. Drawing inspiration from the historical European salon tradition, it is reimagined for the present moment: intimate, intentional, and uncompromising in depth.

At the heart of DVSSIMA is the belief that art is not merely performed, but inhabited. Each gathering is curated as a total experience, where voice, repertoire, space, conversation, and presence enter into dialogue. Operatic arias, original compositions, chamber works, and experimental forms coexist within an atmosphere of quiet intensity and thoughtful exchange.

DVSSIMA embraces synesthesia as both method and metaphor. Sound is felt as color, gesture as texture, silence as architecture. Music is not isolated from the body or the intellect, but encountered as a living field that shapes perception and meaning.

The project unfolds through multiple forms:

DVSSIMA Salons – private, invitation-based evenings in Manhattan residences, uniting concert performance with intellectual and social exchange

DVSSIMA Concerts – curated public programs foregrounding voice, composition, and inner narrative

DVSSIMA Pop-Ups – site-responsive or spontaneous appearances, bringing operatic and art music into unexpected spaces

Guided by a Franciscan interior ethic, DVSSIMA holds beauty as a form of responsibility. Elegance is paired with restraint. Craft is paired with humility. Culture is not consumed, but stewarded.

The ethos of DVSSIMA is elegantine: refined, attuned, contained, and luminous. The word originates in Dr. Susberich’s earliest poetic language, first appearing in a poem she wrote at the age of five, describing the movement of her own voice as twilight vines streaming through deep waters, yearning toward what lies just beyond reach. That sensibility remains central to the house: a quality that draws without force, that listens as much as it speaks, and that gestures toward the threshold where sound becomes prayer, and beauty is approached with reverence.

DVSSIMA is not a brand in the conventional sense.
It is a house, a practice, and a long-form vision.
An offering to those drawn to depth, listening, and the quiet fire of form.

DVSSIMA — velvet like violet opal.