Listen to this special concert of trios and duos from the Folias Duo With Olivia Vargas March Live Stream on March 13. We premiered the collaborations of Soon and Air Drop Queen along with the original trio version of Andrew’s Emerson. Program: Air Drop Queen (2022) – Maret/Bergeron Soon (2022) – Vargas/Bergeron Self Deprecating Love…
For our February live stream concert, we take you on a musical safari! Folias Duo Valentine’s Safari. We start the show off with two pieces from the Folias cellar, the 2012/13 hits of Scotch Bonnet and Cabrales. After that, you’ll hear about the creatures of the safari with bulls, praying mantis, snakes, foxes, and locusts!…
Join us for our first live stream concert of 2022 Folias Duo Winter Light! We will be playing all of Andrew’s new suite The Way Through along with a set of Carmen’s music, including the second performance of Locust Storm. SUBSCRIBE! Apple http://bit.ly/FMLonAppleAndroid http://bit.ly/FMLonAndroidStitcher http://bit.ly/FMLonStitcher
Each December we hold a Folias Duo Open House featuring a concert and a display of our merchandise. In this year’s virtual version of the event, we present the music we’ve been working on this last year at home including a performance of Andrew’s full Dragonfly and the world premiere of Carmen’s new piece Locust Storm. Subscribe and…
Carmen Maret and Andrew Bergeron of the Folias Duo talk with flutist and composer Svetlana Djirackor about finding the magic in 2020. Maret and Bergeron discuss composing and performing their own music, their musical inspirations, how they model music after their favorite composers, and how the challenges of 2020 brought new ways of performing and…
Carmen Maret and Andrew Bergeron of the Folias Duo talk with their colleague Christopher Martin about the music for their upcoming album release. They discuss the process of musical recycling in composition, the intersection of tango, and musical inspiration from literature. Check out the concert and conversation. Subscribe and Review on Itunes http://foliasmusic.com//wp-content/podcasts/FMLChrisM.mp3Podcast: Play in…
Western Michigan’s WMUK radio producer Jack Perlstein talks with composers Carmen Maret and Andrew Bergeron of the Folias Duo about finding their voice as classical composers. They discuss their perspectives on composing in a genre heavily influenced by the performance of “the classics” and creative ways they continue to write and perform original music for…
Folias talks with T.S. Zak Brown and Victoria Randlett in their studio VZ Tango in Reno, Nevada. From an interview on the summer tour in 2015, they reveal the full story about how they got into Argentine tango music and dancing and what keeps them going with this beautiful art form. Subscribe and Review on…
Folias performs live at the GRAM Grand Rapids Art Museum from a January 18, 2015 concert featuring Andrew’s Folias Variations for flute and guitar, a trio piece about blue cheese piece Cabrales, and a transcription arrangement of Pedro Laurenz’s Quejas de bandoneón. Subscribe and Review on Itunes Folias thanks violinist Christopher Martin, audio engineer John Jansen, and photographers David McGowan and…
A conversation with bassist, arranger, and Triumph Music Academy owner James Forrest Hughes on how Folias approaches booking, touring, and what keeps entrepreneur musicians going. Subscribe and Review on Itunes http://foliasmusic.com//wp-content/podcasts/FMLJames.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | More Visit Triumph Music Academy
The Corazón Tanguero show on KUNM 89.9 at the University of Albuquerque, NM hosted by Cristina Baccin featured Folias on June 21, 2014 playing our own compositions live in the studio. We talked with Cristina about combining the experience of playing concert chamber music with Argentinian folk and tango, and discussed our connection to nature…
This interdisciplinary tango event in Michigan combined art, music, and dance all about the legendary Argentine composer and bandoneónist Astor Piazzolla. We talk about the place of Piazzolla in the history of tango, the new trio arrangements we did for the event organized by Jorge Broggio, the nature of improvising both dance and music, and present…
We talk about three pieces from the chamber concert at Aquinas College: our co-composed “salsa” piece Scotch Bonnet (“what if J.S. Bach ate a habenero?”); Black Warrior, Andrew’s piece from our artist residency in the North Cascades, and Sotres, Andrew’s flute, violin, and guitar piece inspired by the Picos de Europa off the coast of Northern Spain in Asturias.…
