Andre de Quadros

Who is Andre de Quadros?

André de Quadros, 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, at the University of Melbourne, at Monash University, at the Universitat "Mozarteum" in Salzburg with a DAAD 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.