Anthony Albrecht is a Novocastrian* cellist and recent graduate of The Juilliard School in New York City, completing a Master of Music in Historical Performance while studying with Phoebe Carrai. During his degree Anthony performed under William Christie and Nick McGegan and alongside Jordi Savall and Monica Huggett in venues such as Alice Tully Hall and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

Beginning cello at the age of 7, his cello teachers and mentors have since included Anthea Scott-Mitchell (Newcastle Conservatorium), Alexander Baillie (HfK Bremen), Stephan Schrader (Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie), Guido Larisch (Freiburger Barockorchester), Bruno Cocset (Les Basses Réunies), Jamie Hey (Australian Brandenburg Orchestra) and Daniel Yeadon (Australian Chamber Orchestra), with whom he completed a JUMP Mentorship through the Australia Council of the Arts in 2011. He has also enjoyed private study with Pieter Wispelwey in Holland. 

In New York, Anthony is a founding member of New Vintage Baroque. Back home in Australia, Anthony has performed with Ironwood, Sydney Camerata, Pacific Opera, The Sydney Consort, Salut! Baroque, the Australian Haydn Ensemble, Pinchgut Opera, the Orchestra of the Antipodes and the contemporary music ensemble Chronology Arts. As a chamber musician Anthony has collaborated with Charles Neidich, Marc Destrubé, Kathryn Selby and Neal Peres Da Costa, among others. He has been an Ian Potter Cultural Trust recipient in 2013 and 2014, and was nominated for the MCA Freedman Fellowship for the last two years. 

Anthony is a passionate nature lover, bike rider, a qualified Railway Worker and German translator, and in 2012 completed a Bachelor of Liberal Arts and Sciences with Honours in Geography at Sydney University. He is has recently been accepted into the PhD programs of the Royal College of Music, the Guildhall School the Leeds School of Music and Royal Holloway (University of London).

* Novocastrian: one hailing from Newcastle, Australia

The story began ten years ago with Bangers (Adam) and Hatts (Dan) in a small isolated fishing village on top of a mountain, where they walked 10 fathoms through moth balls to study music together. Bangers with his slap happy, give ya granny some coke bass and Hatts busting rhythms like virgins on horse back it wasn't long before they paired up to what they do best...... penetrate ear holes !
On there quest for sound to quiver any loin, they stumbled across a damsel in distress (Lady Lisa sing thing) held by the jaws of a monster from the deep. With one sub-sonic boom from there powers combined she was free, thus forming the the sound of Eat Like A Monster.

Bringing the sound of Drum and bass, hip hop, dub, and electro. They deliver this to the stage with the use of synths, samplers, bass guitar and vynil, to melt the face of any dance lover.

Cecilia Sala, born in Milan, approached the world of classical singing as soloist soprano of the vocal quartet “Santa Tecla” of Milan’s cathedral. Together with the diploma in baroque singing at the “Accademia Internazionale della Musica” (2008, prof. Roberto Balconi) she attended various masterclasses in Italy (with Sergio Foresti, Roberta Invernizzi) and Austria (Austria Barock Akademie). Pupil of the mezzo-soprano Bianca Maria Casoni, she performed as a soloist and with chamber choirs in several music festivals such as “XXVII Festival delle Nazioni di Città di Castello“, le “Settimane Musicali di Stresa e del Lago Maggiore” and “Suoni entro le mura”. With the ensemble “Il Canto di Orfeo” she recorded music of Giacomo Carissimi and Antonio Vivaldi. In 2008 she moved to Berlin, where she studied with Birgit Wagner and Sibylle Fischer and works as a soloist. In 2012, 2013 and 2014 she gave a recital at the Mozarthaus (Mozart House) in Augsburg with the pianist Stephanie Knauer. Since 2010 she´s been an Italian language coach for operas: she already worked with the Musikfestspiele Potsdam for the baroque Opera “Calandro“ by Ristori and for the Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg for Puccini’s “Tosca”. Between 2012 and 2017 she worked as Italian teacher at the „Carl Maria von Weber“ conservatory in Dresden and in 2017 she was lecturer for “Italian for the Opera” classes at the Udk Berlin. In 2018 she worked as a prompter for Sciarrino´s “Luci mie traditrici” for the Theater Lübeck. In addition to that she works as a translator for musicology, singing teacher, voice therapist and breathwork facilitator in Berlin.

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