Rémy Couvez
Rémy Couvez is a French composer and viellist, a musician who plays the hurdy-gurdy.
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- Name
- Rémy Couvez
- Occupation
- Musician, composer
- Born
- 1950
- Nationality
- France
- Languages
- French
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Rémy Couvez is a French composer and viellist, a musician who plays the hurdy-gurdy.
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• Name — Rémy Couvez • Occupation — Musician, composer • Instrument — Hurdy-gurdy • Years Active — 1982–present • Website — www.remycouvez.com
Biography
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
Concerts
In 1982, he performed his first concert solo. He's currently doing concerts with: • Quintet: hurdy gurdy, baroque oboe, harpsichord, sackbut and cello; • Duet: hurdy gurdy and pipe organ.
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Rémy Couvez is recorded with the occupation composer. Recorded as composer and musician.
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1950
Rémy Couvez born.
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
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- 1.Short biography. spectacles.fr.
- 2.Biography. remycouvez.com.
- 3.Concerts. remycouvez.com.
- 4.Rémy Couvez, Antoine et Emek : une palette de sonorités originales. ledauphine.com. 22 August 2016.
- 5.Festival Les Musical'été - Scène Rousseau : Remy Couvez - Annemasse (74). haute-savoie-tourisme.org.
- 6.Programme Musical'été 2016 small.
- 7.Rémy Couvez Plays Johann Sebastian Bach. microsoft.com.
- 8.Rémy Couvez, vielle à roue et Sylvain Boudou, orgue. budamusique.com.
- 9.Rémy Couvez and Jean Regnery. www.moucherel.fr.
- 10.Discography. remycouvez.com.
- 11.Biography and discography. sonotheque-normandie.com.
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