Andrew Bergeron has a diverse musical background that began with keyboard lessons at the age of five. He started practicing on an electric organ in his parents' living room before learning electric guitar, percussion, and eventually classical guitar. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Music and Philosophy from Grand Valley State University, where he studied classical guitar, music composition, and Chinese philosophy. Andrew also spent a summer studying abroad in Shanghai. He continued his studies at Michigan State University, where he earned a Master of Music in composition, was awarded the Paul Harder Composition Scholarship, and won the MSU Composition Competition. He studied guitar with Brian Morris, composition with Charles Ruggiero and Bob Schechtman, and music theory with Sherman Van Solkema.

Andrew began his teaching career at the age of 24 as a guitar instructor at Grand Rapids Community College. He also taught Suzuki guitar through the Grand Rapids Arts Outreach Program. With almost two decades of experience as a classroom instructor, Andrew has taught music theory, ear training, and guitar classes. He served as the ear training instructor for second-year students at Grand Valley State University for nine years and as the instructor for second-year theory and ear training at Aquinas College for eleven years. Since 2003, he has taught guitar classes at Grand Rapids Community College, Grand Valley State University, and Aquinas College featuring his own compositions and arrangements. Andrew's personalized teaching methods enable a wide variety of people to excel in learning classical guitar and music composition.

Carmen Maret has been passionate about music since she was six years old, starting with piano lessons and expanding to singing in choirs, playing flute in concert bands, and performing with youth orchestras throughout her teenage years. She earned her Bachelor of Music in flute performance from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music, and her Master of Music in flute performance from Michigan State University. Carmen also has a Master of Arts degree in ethnomusicology from Michigan State University, where she focused on Argentine tango music and dance. Her primary flute teachers were Mary Posses and Richard Sherman. Carmen attended the Eastern Music Festival in 1998 and studied with Peter Lloyd at his summer flute seminar in St. Andrew’s, Scotland in 1999. She has also had the privilege of performing in masterclasses with William Bennett and Julia Bogorad and attending masterclasses with Carol Wincenc, James Galway, and Emmanuel Pahud. In addition to her classical training, Carmen has studied jazz improvisation with Bobby Watson and Ron Blake, and tango music with bassist Pablo Aslan.

Carmen began her teaching career in 2007 at the Grand Rapids Community College Arts Outreach Program, where she focused on Suzuki flute instruction. Since 2011, she has been teaching applied college flute lessons at Aquinas College and Grand Rapids Community College, leading studio flute classes, and conducting and arranging for flute ensembles. In her current classroom teaching experience, Carmen covers a wide variety of rotating topics, such as the history of Western music, MIDI technology, music entrepreneurship, and music theory basics at Aquinas College, and American popular music and the business of music at Grand Rapids Community College. She is passionate about sharing her love for music with her students and helping them grow as musicians.