Rémy Couvez is a French composer and ''viellist'', a musician who plays the

hurdy-gurdy The hurdy-gurdy is a string instrument that produces sound by a hand-turned crank, rosined wheel rubbing against the strings. The wheel functions much like a violin (or nyckelharpa) bow, and single notes played on the instrument sound similar ...

Biography

He was introduced to the hurdy-gurdy in 1978, and he started playing the instrument in 1981. Until 2000, he created music combining the hurdy-gurdy with electric instruments. Since then, he's come back to acoustic music.

Concerts

In 1982, he performed his first concert solo. He's currently doing concerts with: * Quintet:

hurdy gurdy The hurdy-gurdy is a string instrument that produces sound by a hand-turned crank, rosined wheel rubbing against the strings. The wheel functions much like a violin (or nyckelharpa) bow, and single notes played on the instrument sound similar ...

, baroque

oboe The oboe ( ) is a type of double-reed woodwind instrument. Oboes are usually made of wood, but may also be made of synthetic materials, such as plastic, resin, or hybrid composites. The most common type of oboe, the soprano oboe pitched in C, ...

harpsichord A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a musical keyboard, keyboard. Depressing a key raises its back end within the instrument, which in turn raises a mechanism with a small plectrum made from quill or plastic that plucks one ...

sackbut A sackbut is an early form of the trombone used during the Renaissance music, Renaissance and Baroque music, Baroque eras. A sackbut has the characteristic telescopic slide of a trombone, used to vary the length of the tube to change Pitch (m ...

and

cello The violoncello ( , ), commonly abbreviated as cello ( ), is a middle pitched bowed (sometimes pizzicato, plucked and occasionally col legno, hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually intonation (music), tuned i ...

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and

pipe organ The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurised air (called ''wind'') through the organ pipes selected from a Musical keyboard, keyboard. Because each pipe produces a single tone and pitch, the pipes are provide ...

Discography

Sources: * 1986: ''Paysages Intérieurs'', self-published * 1993: ''Propos Insolites'', Buda Musique editions * 1997: ''Itinérances'', Buda Musique editions * 2000: ''Wheeling Dance'', Buda Musique editions * 2008: ''Confluence'', Buda Musique editions * 2012: ''Wood Song'', Buda Musique editions * 2014: ''Vielle et Orgue'', Buda Musique editions * 2018: ''Quintus Novum'', Buda Musique editions

External links

Official website

References

French composers Hurdy-gurdy players Year of birth missing (living people) Living people {{France-music-bio-stub