Cyprian Consiglio

American Christian music songwriter, composer, author, recording artist, musician, teacher, Camaldolese monk and Catholic priest. He grew up near in Illinois and later spent years living in Phoenix, Arizona, where he worked as a professional musician, performer (guitarist and vocalist), arranger and producer. He earned his master’s degree in theology from St. John's Seminary in Camarillo, California, and was ordained in 1998. 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. Along with his six collections of original music recorded and published through OCP Publications, Cyprian 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 is prior of the New Camaldoli Hermitage in the Diocese of Monterey in California.