Professor Jonathan Freeman-Attwood CBE
Principal of the Royal Academy of Music

Intesa was formed in 2023 at the Royal Academy of Music by Lucine Musaelian and Nathan Giorgetti, with the goal of celebrating the viol’s combination with the voice. Intesa is an Italian word meaning “understanding”, or a meeting of minds. This ethos of collaboration and agreement is embodied in the duo’s programming, where folk and early music repertoire are placed side-by-side, bringing together European and Armenian traditions through narrative and self-accompaniment.

Intesa performs regularly in the UK and internationally. They have performed several sold-out concerts at Handel Hendrix House and Fidelio Cafe, as well as a residency with the National Centre for Early Music as part of their York Early Music Christmas Festival and Baroque Around the Books series. Overseas engagements have included two performances at the Utrecht Fabulous Fringe Early Music Festival, a residency at Ferrandou Musique, a concert at Vilalte Festival, and a New York debut concert at the Harold Pratt House and the Gotham Early Music Scene Midtown Concerts series. In January 2025, they performed at the Leeds International Concert Season and in Vienna as part of the Resonanzen early music festival. Other recent concerts include the Stoke Newington Early Music Festival and the Islington Arts Festival in London. Upcoming engagements feature performing at the Residenzwoche Munchen, a return to the Vienna Resonanzen Festival, and a tour of Scotland in January 2026, organised by the Tunnell Trust.

They have recently recorded their debut album, engineered and produced by Jared Sacks, and available on the Pelle d’Oca label in early 2026.

Since their founding, Intesa were awarded the 2023-24 Chamber Music Fellowship at the Royal Academy of Music, won 2nd prize at the #GeneraciónSMADE competition in Estella (Spain),  are one of five winners of the Tunnell Trust Awards in 2024, and have been nominated as City Music Foundation Artists 2025.