Hanne Lippard & Renato Grieco

The collaborative project by Hanne Lippard and Renato Grieco commenced in 2025 during Lippard’s residency at Villa Massimo in Rome as well as their concurrent residency at Fondazione Morra in Napoli.

Consistent with their individual artistic practices, the collaborative work of the duo centers on musical compositions predicated on speech and language. The inevitable outcome is a harmonic interplay between Grieco’s instrumental humanism, the acoustic vocal timbre of the viola da gamba, and the distinctive sonic attributes of Lippard’s linguistic practice. Working with methods of reduction rather than opulence in both tonal composition and rhetoric, their repertoire presents itself as a novel synthesis between melody and diction.

They have performed at Somerset House London, Art Geneve Music, Vulcana Festival, Stromboli, Deutsche Akademie Villa Massimo in Rome and Valdemars Slot in Svendborg.