André de Quadros
Professor, Music Education; Director, School of Music; Artistic Director, Boston University Tanglewood Institute. Affiliate faculty, African Studies Center Global Health Initiative, and Institute for the study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations
BA, University of Bombay; Diploma of Humanities, La Trobe University; Graduate Diploma in Movement and Dance, University of Melbourne; Graduate Diploma in Music, Victorian College of the Arts; MEd, La Trobe University; Graduate Certificate of Higher Education, Monash University; graduate studies at Universität Mozarteum. He studied violin with Adrian de Mello and conducting with Joachim Buehler and Robert Rosen. DAAD scholarship 1979–1980 for study at the Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg. Professor de Quadros is active internationally as a conductor, scholar, and board member. He is chairman of the Board of Alea III Contemporary Music Ensemble and a board member of Project STEP, Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra, Boston Baroque, Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, and the Boston University Center for Excellence in Teaching, as well as a member of the Steering Committee of the Global Health Initiative, Advisor to the Board of the International Federation for Choral Music and Chair of its Multicultural and Ethnic Commission, Artistic Director of the Aswatuna—Arab Choral Festival, and Honorary Artistic President of the Symposium of Church Choral Music, Indonesia. He is currently on the editorial board of the Journal of Educational Inquiry and is editor of Music of Asia and the Pacific, published by (Earthsongs Publications), and Songs of the World (Hinshaw Music). Conducting engagements of note include Moscow State Symphony Orchestra, Prokofiev Symphony Orchestra (Ukraine), National Youth Choir of Great Britain, Baden-Baden Orchester, Shiki Daikunokai Choir and Orchestra (Japan), Penang State Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, and Kaunas State Philharmonic Choir (Lithuania), Tanglewood Institute Young Artists Orchestra and Massachusetts All-State Chorus. Invited presentations include American Orff Schulwerk Association (Philadelphia), World Symposium of Choral Music (Vancouver), Deutscher Sängerbund (Würzburg), and the National Choral Seminar (Singapore). His awards include Monash University Vice-Chancellor and President’s Special Commendation for Distinguished Teaching. He is an Accredited Teacher, SEDA (UK) and his prior university appointments include being Associate Professor and Director of Music Performance at Monash University School of Music—Conservatorium, Australia. He is also former Artistic Director of the Melbourne International Festival of Choirs. His research interests include cross-cultural studies, post-colonial choral music, and multicultural music education.