“I’m proud that the creative environment at the Royal Academy of Music was the place where Intesa was formed, encouraging and witnessing a fresh chamber idiom brimming with originality, diversity, and imagination. There seems to be no limits to how the truly excellent Lucine and Nathan can reach audiences, new and old. It’s been a joy watching them develop, and occasionally lending an ear in that process.”
Professor Jonathan Freeman-Attwood CBE
Principal of the Royal Academy of Music
Intesa is a duo for voice and viol formed by Lucine Musaelian and Nathan Giorgetti, dedicated to exploring the rich relationship between voice and viol through self-accompanied performance. They are 2025 City Music Foundation Artists, and with the Foundation’s support have recently recorded their debut album, engineered and produced by Jared Sacks and to be released on the Pelle d’Oca label in 2026.
Recent highlights include appearances at the Resonanzen Festival in Vienna in both 2025 and January 2026, returning to a full house at the Wiener Konzerthaus’s Mozart-Saal. International engagements have also taken them to the Utrecht Fabulous Fringe Festival, the ECOS Festival in Spain, and the Munich Residenzwoche in Germany. In the United States, the duo made their New York debut at the Harold Pratt House and in the Gotham Early Music Scene Midtown Concerts series.
In the UK, Intesa performs regularly and has appeared in the Leeds International Concert Season, the Stoke Newington Early Music Festival, the Islington Arts Festival, and the Two Moors Festival, as well as on a Scotland tour supported by the Tunnell Trust. They have also given several sold-out concerts at Handel Hendrix House and Fidelio Café in London, and held a residency at the National Centre for Early Music as part of the York Early Music Christmas Festival and the Baroque Around the Books series.
Upcoming engagements include a recital at St Martin-in-the-Fields, appearances at the Beverley Festival of Early Music and the Swaledale Festival, and a concert at the Utrecht Early Music Festival in summer 2026.
Intesa was formed in 2023 at the Royal Academy of Music. The ensemble’s name, an Italian word meaning “understanding” or “meeting of minds”, reflects the collaborative ethos at the heart of their work. Their programmes place folk and early music repertoire side by side, bringing together European and Armenian traditions through narrative and self-accompanied performance.
Hear us
Here are two videos we recently recorded. The Recordings section of our website will be updated with all our latest material, as well as our YouTube channel.
