Originally from Holland, Michigan, Andrew Bergeron splits his creative efforts between composition and performance. 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 and chamber music. He received his Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Philosophy from Grand Valley State University, and has performed solo guitar recitals throughout mid-Michigan before co-founding the flute and guitar duo Folias. Andrew Bergeron is a member of the Grand Rapids Guitar Quartet, and founded the Suzuki guitar department at Grand Rapids Community College. He is a guitar instructor at Grand Rapids Community College and at Aquinas College. Andrew is also a tango instructor with his wife Carmen Maret in the Grand Rapids Tango Community. Andrew is also on staff at Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Grand Rapids.
As a flutist, dancer and tango scholar, Carmen Maret merges music performance with music ethnography. 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. Before her interest in tango, Carmen Maret specialized in performance. She received her Bachelor of Music in flute performance from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and her Master of Music in flute performance from Michigan State University. Currently she teaches Suzuki flute at Grand Rapids Community College. Carmen Maret is the founder of the Grand Rapids Tango Community where she works as a tango teacher and tango musician. Carmen Maret, is also the manager for Folias, and a promotions agent for Blue Griffin Recording based in Lansing, Michigan.
