This October we’re teaming up for concerts with Michael and Olivia, two of our favorite musical collaborators. We’ll feature original works and arrangements for this intimate quartet of voice, flute, and two guitars. The concert explores various classical, jazz, and tango combinations with a new take on the Folias Duo repertoire combined with songs from…
We’re grateful for summer chamber music concerts in Michigan. This July we were invited to play four concerts for the Saugatuck Chamber Music Festival. Curated by mutual colleagues and power couple Jenny Walvoord and Andrew Le, we had a fantastic time playing for their series. We played two evening concerts for the subscription series, an…
We ventured out for our cabin composing 2022 to three different cabins in Northern Michigan. We stayed in, cooked, wrote music, and practiced for two weeks in the Upper Peninsula. we started off two nights at Indian Lake State Park. Then, four nights at JW Wells State Park on the northern end of the Green…
This Saturday we return to the Hackley Public Library for an in-person and live-streamed concert celebrating National Poetry Month. With guest vocalist Olivia Vargas, Folias Duo shares a concert of original compositions for flute, guitar, and voice inspired by the beauty of the earth and a love of poetry. The concert takes place in the…
Folias Duo announces the May Tour as we return to the western United States for concerts and new music. With concerts in intimate settings, we’ll share our instrumental compositions inspired by life on the road and impressions left by the natural world. Coming out of the pandemic, we can’t tell you how thrilled we are…
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!…
Welcome! Our Folias Music GO Series is a monthly live-streamed concert with Folias Duo alongside musical guests who play fresh, undiscovered, and newly written music for soloists and small groups. We started the GO Series in 2020 to keep connecting with musicians and audiences, and we’re excited about the continued availability of broadcasting technologies for independent artists.…
For this month’s live stream concert we have created a multi-media program called “Journey to the End of Summer.” Alongside some of our newer flute and guitar compositions, we will feature animated videos of artworks in our collection by Alynn Guerra, David McKie, Gregg Bruff, and Alina Poroshina. The story read by Andrew is about…
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…
Folias Duo “The Literary Show” November Live Stream Concert SUNDAY, NOV 8 at 4PM ET https://www.facebook.com/foliasmusic/live/https://www.foliasmusic.com/video/ We will be taking our monthly live stream concert on the road this month. We’ll be live in the stacks at the Hackley Public Library! The show will feature music inspired by the prose of Cormac McCarthy, Ralph Waldo…
What people are saying about Delicate Omens… Delicate Omens, “These two artists are top talents, almost singular within contemporary flute and guitar ensembles.” Flutist Quarterly – Fall 2020 “The recording exudes a magnificent clarity” “Immersing themselves in such manner fostered connection and contemplation in equal measure, the outcome compositions of genuine, elemental character.” “Maret’s flute…
Over the winter break Carmen and I got away from the Michigan grey and went to Southwest Texas. While we were there we made a music video of my composition Silver Jack in Big Bend National Park. With only the cacti and the creosote present we wanted to share this beautiful place with you. https://youtu.be/tzzhnDJxd7g
In October Folias Duo had the opportunity to have a conversation and play live on Blue Lake Public Radio. It was our pleasure to return to Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp and be joined by long time announcer Bonnie Bierma. We discussed our newest release Delicate Omens along with our compositional process. In the classical…
Delicate Omens Official Release by Folias Duo on October 6, 2019 on the Folias Music label Flutist Carmen Maret and guitarist Andrew Bergeron, the husband-and-wife duo “daring in self-written music” (American Record Guide) continue to carve out their uncommon niche in the classical music world as performers who are also composers. The Folias Duo’s newest release…
Flutist Carmen Maret and guitarist Andrew Bergeron of the Folias Duo celebrate their 2019 summer tour marking sixteen years together as music and life partners. We’re hitting the road again this 2019 summer tour with 20 + shows in the western U.S. including concerts and milongas (tango dances) in New Mexico, California, Nevada, Oregon and…
2018 Tour Feelin’ the Love Check out our tour stats and thank you’s to all the folks that make this great endeavor of playing music possible. 26 gigs in 70 days in 13 states 15 nights in Colorado 10 nights in California 9 nights in Wisconsin 8 nights in Nevada 5 nights…
For the third year in a row, we’ve taken time out of our summer performing tour to write music at a “composing residency” in a rustic cabin in Colorado. This year we rented a cabin in the La Garita mountains just outside of the San Luis Valley. The cabin is a forty minute drive down…
This year we started our 2018 California route with a milonga in Sacramento for Tango on Broadway. We continued with a concert in San Francisco and then we played for a milonga in Ventura hosted by our friends Stephen and Deb who curate Quantum Tango, a group we’ve worked with five times now. We then made…
Concerts Last week we were in Northern California and Oregon playing concerts in the Cascades. We started off the week with our third performance at the Burning Tango Festival playing Saturday night right before the evening Milonga. Many thanks to all of the enthusiastic dancers. After the festival, we drove north to Oregon for a set…
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…
