Professor of Music, Music Education Department
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André de Quadros has been described as “one of the most inspiring human rights educators of our time” by the Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights. He is a human rights activist, conductor, ethnomusicologist, music educator, and writer whose work has taken him to the most diverse settings in 40 countries including professional ensembles, projects with prisons, psychosocial rehabilitation, refugees, and victims of sexual violence, torture, and trauma. He is a professor of music in the College of Fine Arts. He leads Common Ground Voices, an Israeli-Palestinian peacebuilding and reconciliation initiative. Through this project and numerous others in Israel and the Arab world, he has used music as a means of community mobilization and intercultural dialogue. A childhood refugee his life’s work has been aimed at the establishment of fair and equitable social systems. Many years with rival prison gangs and divided communities has served as a model for reconciliation work. https://www.andredequadros.com/