Cyprian Consiglio, OSB Cam

Cyprian Consiglio is a musician, composer, author, teacher and monk of the Camaldolese Congregation. For 10 years, he lived at New Camaldoli Hermitage in Big Sur, serving for eight years as liturgist, choir director and teacher. Much of both his music and his teaching revolve around the Universal Call to Contemplation through spirituality and the arts.

Along with his six collections of original music recorded and published through OCP, he released three others through the Equilibrium label with his longtime collaborator, percussionist John Pennington. The Equilibrium collections are titled Awakening, The Song of Luke and Compassionate and Wise. Another collection to his credit is Wait, My Soul, In Silence, music for meditation created in collaboration with Laurence Freeman for MedioMedia.

A student of the writings of Bede Griffiths and Abhishiktananda, Cyprian has a great love for comparative religion and he has been to India several times to study and teach. He regularly leads retreats and conferences on meditation, and has done work in interfaith ritual.

Cyprian currently lives in Santa Cruz, California. He spends about half his time at home, and half his time traveling nationally and internationally performing and teaching.