Cyprian Consiglio is a Camaldolese Benedictine monk from the community of New Camaldoli Hermitage in Big Sur. He is a musician, composer, writer and teacher. He lived for ten years and did his monastic formation at the hermitage in Big Sur, where he served as liturgist, choirmaster and teacher. Cyprian currently lives near Santa Cruz, California; he spends about half his time at home and half his time on the road performing and teaching.

Much of both his music and his teaching revolve around the Universal Call to Contemplation through spirituality and the arts. He has five collections of original music recorded and published through OCP Publications, three others released through the Equilibrium label with his long time collaborator, percussionist John Pennington, and several other self-published recordings. He has also collaborated on several collections of a capella sacred music for the church year with the Collegeville Composers Group for Liturgical Press.

Cyprian earned his MA in Theology from St Johns Seminary in Camarillo, CA. He also did Yoga Teacher Training through Mount Madonna Center in Watsonville, CA. A student of the writings of Bede Griffiths and Abhishiktananda, Cyprian has a great love for comparative religion, has done extensive work in inter-faith ritual and world music, regularly leads conferences on meditation, and has been to India and other countries in Asia several times, both studying and teaching. He also serve on the board of the Bede Griffiths Trust and Monastic Interreligious Dialogue. Cyprian has written numerous articles and a book, “Prayer in the Cave of the Heart: The Universal Call to Contemplation,” for Liturgical Press.