Andre de Quadros

André de Quadros (1953—), conductor, ethnomusicologist, music educator, and human rights activist has conducted and undertaken research in over forty countries and is a professor of music at Boston University. He has had a number of leadership positions at Boston University, including: director of the School of Music, chair of the Music Education Department, chair of the Department of Music in the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and artistic director of the Tanglewood Institute. He holds affiliated faculty appointments in other BU departments: the African Studies Center, the Center for the Study of Asia, and the Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations.

He has studied at the Bombay School of Music, the University of Bombay, La Trobe University (Australia), at the University of Melbourne, at Monash University (Australia), at the Universitat "Mozarteum" in Salzburg with a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) scholarship, and at the Victorian College of the Arts.

As a conductor, he is developing new cross-cultural experimental repertoire with influences of Arab, Indian, Latin American, and Indonesian music. Engagements of note include the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Bulgaria with which he toured Spain, the Massachusetts All-State Chorus (USA), the Tanglewood Institute Young Artists Orchestra (USA), the Prokofiev Symphony Orchestra (Ukraine), the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain, the Nusantara Chamber Orchestra (Indonesia), the Moscow State Radio Symphony Orchestra, the New Monash Orchestra, the Jauna Muzika Choir (Lithuania), and Choralies 2010 (France). He is a member of Interkultur’s World Choir Council and Artistic Director of Aswatuna – Arab Choral Festival.

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