title: Rémy Couvez
text: # Rémy Couvez
  
  Rémy Couvez is a French composer and viellist, a musician who plays the hurdy-gurdy.
  
  ## 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, baroque oboe, harpsichord, sackbut and cello ;
  * Duet: hurdy gurdy and pipe organ.
  
  ## Discography
  
  * 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
  