André de Quadros

Professor André de Quadros is professor of music, director of the School of Music at Boston University, artistic director of the Tanglewood Institute and a faculty member in Boston University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilisations.

He studied at the Bombay School of Music and the University of Bombay. Graduate studies followed at La Trobe University at the University of Melbourne, Monash University, Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg with a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) scholarship and Victorian College of the Arts. Violin studies were with Adrian de Mello and conducting studies were with Joachim Buehler (Germany) and Robert Rosen (Rumania).

He has conducted many of the major large choral works as well as standard works of the symphonic repertoire, together with first performances and premieres of new and unusual repertoires. Among his many awards is a first prize in the Australian National Choral Championships. He has taught conducting in Germany, Singapore and Indonesia. Engagements of note include the Prokofiev Symphony Orchestra (Ukraine), National Youth Choir of Great Britain, Baden-Baden Philharmonic Orchestra (Germany), Shiki Daikunokai Choir and Orchestra (Japan), Penang State Symphony Orchestra and Chorus (Malaysia), the Japan International Youth Musicale, the Nusantara Chamber Orchestra (Indonesia), and the Moscow State Radio Symphony Orchestra.

He enjoys a unique relationship with the Studio Cantorum in Indonesia with which he has collaborated in several concerts and professional development projects. He is the artistic director of both the North Sulawesi International Choral Competition and the Aswatuna - Arab Choral Festival. He has conducted the Massachusetts All-State Chorus. He is the Chair of the Multicultural and Ethnic Commission of the International Federation for Choral Music (IFCM) and edits choral works for Earthsongs and Hinshaw Music.