Andre de Quadros

Boston University College of Fine Arts

André de Quadros is a professor of music at Boston University, where he holds affiliations in African, Asian, and Muslim studies, and in prison education. He directs numerous international ensembles focusing on justice. As a scholar, conductor, educator, and human rights activist, his professional work has taken him to the most diverse ensembles and settings in more than 40 countries, spanning professional ensembles, and including projects with prisons, psychosocial rehabilitation, refugees and asylum-seekers, victims of torture and trauma, and peacebuilding work in the Arab world and Israel. Among his many publications is his authored book, Focus: Choral Music in Global Perspective (Routledge), and coedited book, My Body was Left on the Street: Music Education and Displacement (Brill). In 2019, he was a Distinguished Academic Visitor at Queens’ College, University of Cambridge.

Areas of Expertise

• Crime and Punishment
• Education
• Music and Musicology
• Race and Ethnicity
• Performing and Visual Arts

Methodology

• Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR)
• Ethnographic Methods
• Focus Groups
• Interviews
• Mixed Methods
• Qualitative Methods