Intesa Duo

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 given several sold-out concerts at Handel Hendrix House and Fidelio Cafe, and held a residency at the National Centre for Early Music as part of the York Early Music Christmas Festival and Baroque Around the Books series. Other UK engagements have included the Leeds International Concert Season, Stoke Newington Early Music Festival, Islington Arts Festival, the Two Moors Festival, and a Scotland tour sponsored by the Tunnell Trust.

Internationally, Intesa has appeared at the Utrecht Fabulous Fringe Early Music Festival, made their New York debut at the Harold Pratt House and the Gotham Early Music Scene Midtown Concerts series, and performed at ECOS Festival (Spain) and Munich Residenzwoche (Germany). They have also been featured twice at the Resonanzen Festival in Vienna, first in 2025 and most recently in January 2026, returning to a full house at the Mozart-Saal of the Wiener Konzerthaus. Upcoming engagements include a recital at St Martin-in-the-Fields, performances at the Beverly and Swaledale Festivals, and a concert at the Utrecht Early Music Festival in summer 2026.

Intesa are currently 2025 City Music Foundation Artists. With their help, they have recently recorded their debut album, which was engineered and produced by Jared Sacks and will be available on the Pelle d’Oca label in 2026.

 

Lucine Musaelian​​

Lucine Musaelian is an Armenian-American viola da gamba player, singer, and composer from New Jersey. She graduated from Yale University in 2020 with a B.A. in Music, and completed her M.A. in viol and voice at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel with Paolo Pandolfo and voice with Rosa Dominguez. She continued her viol studies with Jonathan Manson at the Royal Academy of Music. In London, Lucine has performed with Jonathan Manson, Elizabeth Kenny, Phantasm, the Dunedin Consort, the Tallis Society, La Nuova Musica, and the BBC Philharmonic. She is a member of the Idrisi Ensemble, where she plays the vielle and sings medieval repertoire. She has recently performed with Idrisi in KOKO Camden, the Cheltenham Festival, and the Norfolk & Norwich Festival. Lucine is also a core member of the Bellot Ensemble, which was selected as BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Baroque Ensemble 2025-27.  Lucine continues writing music for the viol and voice as a part of her exploration of self-accompanied singing with the viol. Her duo Intesa, co-founded with Nathan Giorgetti, is her main project where she explores self-accompaniment. They were recently selected as 2025 City Music Foundation Artists. In addition to performance life, Lucine is a Professor of Viol Consort and Elective Supervision at the Royal Academy of Music. 

Nathan Giorgetti

Nathan completed his Master’s degree at the Royal Academy of Music in 2023 as a Christopher Hogwood Scholar, specialising in historical performance on the viola da gamba and baroque cello with Jonathan Manson. During his time at the Academy, Nathan co-founded Intesa, a viola da gamba and voice duo which celebrates the combination of viol and voice across a wide range of repertoire. In 2023-24, he was a Chamber Music Fellow at the Academy as part of Intesa.

Since graduating, Nathan has worked with leading figures in the early music scene, including Philippe Herreweghe, Rachel Podger, Bjarte Eike, Michael Chance, Matthew Truscott and Pavlo Beznosiuk, as well as being accepted on the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment’s Experience scheme. Nathan recently joined the Salomon String Quartet, led by Simon Standage, for a series of concerts celebrating Haydn’s music at the Esterházy Castle in Hungary. 

Nathan is also a core member of Bellot Ensemble, an early music group specialising in 16th and 17th-century repertoire. Bellot was selected as BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Baroque Ensemble 2025-27, and their debut album ‘Cupid’s Ground Bass’ was released in November 2025.

Nathan has played with various leading period performance ensembles, including The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, The Hanover Band, and the Early Opera Company. He is the founder of the Vilalte Festival, a yearly chamber music festival taking place in southern France. The festival has been running for eight years and has put on over 35 concerts.