Cyprian Consiglio, OSB Cam

Cyprian Consiglio is a monk of the Camaldolese Congregation, musician, composer, author, and teacher. 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, as well as two other collections self-published out of Singapore. 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. He has also collaborated on several collections of a capella sacred music for the church year with the Collegeville Composers Group.

Cyprian earned his MA in Theology from St Johns Seminary in Camarillo, CA. 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. He has written numerous articles and a book, “Prayer in the Cave of the Heart: The Universal Call to Contemplation,” for Liturgical Press.

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.