Folias Flute and Guitar Duo
Folias Duo (formerly Folias Flute and Guitar Duo)is an American performer/composer chamber music duo group consisting of flutist Carmen Maret and guitarist Andrew Bergeron. Bergeron and Maret met at Michigan State University while finishing their Master’s Degrees in Music and they were married in 2003. The formation of the duo was brought about by a mutual inspiration for original art music, love of nature and the music of Astor Piazzolla and through their work as Argentine tango dance band leaders. Bergeron and Maret first played together in 2002 and released their first album  Tangos Metamorphoses in 2004 on the Blue Griffin Recording label based in Lansing, MI. The album includes Astor Piazzola’s most famous work for flute and guitar Histoire du Tango. This was followed by "Marufo Vega" in 2006 which contains their first original composition inspired by tango called "Despoblado Suite". In the summer of 2007 they were Artists in Residence on Isle Royale National Park and released the album "Waterway" in 2008 which contains all original flute and guitar compositions composed about Lake Superior. This was followed by their 2011 release "Tango and Snow", an album also with all original  flute and guitar compositions that brought together their interest in tango and of nature writing. "Viewpoints", the duo's fifth album was released in 2014 and brought together the couple's musical inspirations from ten years of playing and composing together. Folias Duo has since released two albums on their own Folias Music label, the critically acclaimed "Dreaming to Live" (2017) and "Delicate Omens" released in October 2019. Andrew Bergeron is instructor of guitar and music theory at Grand Rapids Community College, Grand Valley State University and Aquinas College. Andrew is a founding performer and composer with the Grand Rapids  Guitar Quartet. Carmen Maret is an endorsed Pearl Flutes artist and professor of flute at Aquinas College.