André de Quadros is a conductor, ethnomusicologist, music educator, writer, and human rights activist.
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2024 Miegunyah Lecture: Freedom Dreaming, Storytelling & Reconciliation: The Arts in a New World
“We are all artists” – Renowned human rights educator André de Quadros visits University of Melbourne from Boston University, as a 2024 Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellow. Read the press release at this link.
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Visiting Lecture: University of Toronto
André de Quadros presents “This Beautiful Yet Brutal World: Dreaming Non-Violence Through Musicking”. Lecture given on November 16th, 2023
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Podcast Interview with André de Quadros
The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law interviews André de Quadros about his work in prisons, the Middle East, and the Empowering Song approach to music education used in communities seeking change.
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Presentation on Freedom Dreaming: The Arts for Hope and Activism
Drawing on decades of work in prisons, war zones, refugee shelters, and the concert stage, Dr. André de Quadros makes a case for dreaming big and connecting the arts in the struggle for a better world.
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George Floyd, Two Years Later: André de Quadros
Boston University College of Fine Arts interviews André de Quadros, about the desire for change, reaction, and activism that he witnessed globally in the wake of the murder of George Floyd.
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TEDx: Broken Dreams, Better Worlds: The Arts for Hope
Human rights activist and arts educator, André de Quadros, tells powerful stories of the ways in which the arts provoke imaginary worlds.
Presented at TEDxBU, Boston University, November 2021
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February 2022:
André de Quadros receives the Helen Kemp Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Choral Directors Association
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November 2021:
“Human Rights Activist and Music Educator André de Quadros Recognized for Career Dedicated to Justice and the Arts”
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April 2021:
Chorus America announces André de Quadros as the recipient of the Brazeal Wayne Dennard Award:
Professional Development for the Choral Community: The new five-part video series by André de Quadros
Free and available to the public, offered through CHORALSPACE Academy
Peacebuilding and Choral Music
Choral Music and Refugees
Music and Prisons
Music of Islam
Resisting Habits: 21st Century Practice
Ensembles:
VOICES 21C
Boston
An egalitarian chamber choir and artist's collective, dedicated to a mission of global understanding through music.
Manado State University Choir
Indonesia
“MSUC represents not only the country of Indonesia, but in a more complex sense, new directions in choral music worldwide.”
Muslim Choral Ensemble
Sri Lanka
The Muslim Choral Ensemble (MCE), Sri Lanka, is the first ensemble of its type in South Asia, and possibly the world.
Common Ground Voices / La Frontera
Mexico / US border
Resisting the continuing brutality experienced by refugees, asylum seekers, deportees, and the internally displaced at the US/Mexico border.
Common Ground Voices
Israel & Palestine
Community music as an exercise of non-violence, and a springboard for discussion about social and political change
SCO Countries Youth Choir
International
Singers from the 18 countries comprising the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
Race, Prison, Justice Arts
Stories of Black and Brown incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals, who have found expansion and personal discovery as well as a path to activism through the arts
Hosted by Emilie Amrein and André de Quadros, The Choral Commons is a space focused on justice and equity in choral music.
Through conducting, teaching, writing, and activism…
André de Quadros continues to explore, create projects, construct partnerships, and build artistic work firmly rooted in social justice values and an experimental artistic paradigm.
“My Body was Left on the Street”
Music Education and Displacement
The 2020 publication by Kinh T. Vu and André de Quadros
“An unstoppable quality of choral music lies in its power to mobilize a community, to provide a platform for protest, and a unifying voice.”
-André de Quadros
Contact:
Boston University College of Fine Arts
855 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215 USA
adq@bu.edu
+1 617.353.3357