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Folias Music is a flute and guitar duo, publishing company and blog for promoting new works for flute and guitar. Folias the chamber group was founded by Carmen Maret and Andrew Bergeron in 2004 and is based in Grand Rapids, MI. With over 200 performances, Folias specializes in modern chamber music works, most of which are original compositions or those of local Michigan composers. At the Folias Music site you will find recordings and sheet music of Folias’ original works and arrangements which are influenced by modern compositional techniques, tango, and jazz.
Folias Flute and Guitar Duo
Folias has performed in concert halls and for tango events across the country. Their three CDs received glowing reviews by Flute Talk magazine and by Fanfare Magazine. They will release their forth CD, Latin Dance Project, in 2010 on the White Pine Label based at Central Michigan University.
The duo’s background in classical concert music performance and composition mixed with their training in tango and jazz make their performances both informed and exciting.
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Carmen Maret, flute
Andrew Bergeron, guitar
Luke Galas, guitar
David Martin, guitar
The Folias Tango Quartet performs original tango arrangements and compositions rooted in the golden era of tango music. They have performed across the United States for milongas touring with a variety of tango ensembles and teaching tango musicality classes. Band leaders Carmen Maret and Andrew Bergeron have performed tango music for milongas since 2003 and are also dance instructors and founders of the Grand Rapids Tango Community which they formed in 2005.
Carmen Maret began dancing tango and performing tango with the Kansas City, MO based group, Tango Lorca in 2001. Later, she studied tango as an ethnomusicology Master’s student at Michigan State University, and produced a Master’s thesis in 2005 that looked at tango in the Michigan Argentine Tango club based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Carmen Maret is a co-founder of the Grand Rapids Tango Community where she works as a tango teacher and tango musician. Carmen Maret’s main pedagogical influences as a dancer include Tom Stermitz, Brigitta Winkler, and Christopher Nassopoulos & Caroline Peattie.
Andrew Bergeron has taught tango in the Grand Rapids tango community since co-founding it in 2005. His classes focus on finding an ease and flow in Argentine tango through a deep connection to the music. Andrew Bergeron splits his musical efforts between composition and performance, specializing in tango arranging. During his Master’s degree in composition at Michigan State University, Andrew Bergeron composed music for a variety of ensembles including, solo guitar, guitar and flute, electro-acoustic music, chamber music, and tango.
Great Lakes Art Music Ensemble
This chamber art music group was founded in 2007 and combines with flutist Tess Miller and percussionist/composer Scott Harding. This group seeks to compose and commission new works for flute, guitar, and percussion.