Caccini Dalla porta d’oriente
Shnorhali Aravot luso
di Lasso Susanne un jour
Narekatsi Havoon havoon
Monteverdi Si dolce è’l tormento
Caccini Maria, dolce Maria
Vardapet Soorp Soorp
Bassani Toccata
Strozzi Che si puó fare
Armenian trad. Keler Tsoler
Merula Folle è bene che si crede
Caccini Due luci ridenti
Marenzio In un boschetto
Armenian trad. Kakavik

Lucine Musaelian and Nathan Giorgetti vocalist and gambas

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 is embodied in the duo’s programming, where folk and early music are placed side-by-side, bringing together European and Armenian traditions through narrative and self-accompaniment.

Intesa performs regularly in the UK and internationally. Highlights include several sold-out concerts at Handel Hendrix House and Fidelio Cafe, a residency with the National Centre for Early Music, the Leeds International Concert Season, the Stoke Newington Early Music Festival and the Islington Arts Festival in London. Overseas engagements have included two performances at the Utrecht Fabulous Fringe Early Music Festival, concerts at Vilalte Festival, a New York debut concert at the Harold Pratt House and the Gotham Early Music Scene Midtown Concerts series, and a concert in Vienna as part of the Resonanzen early music festival. 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 are currently recording their debut album, which will be available on the Pelle d’Oca label in 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 Spain, and are one of five winners of the Tunnell Trust Awards in 2024. 

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. Lucine is currently a Professor of Viol Consort and Elective Supervision at the Royal Academy of Music. 

Nathan Giorgetti 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’ will be 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.