EVA Webinar
Supporting Muslim Students During Concert Season

The spring concert season shouldn't force Muslim students to choose between their faith and their ensemble. But navigating religious observance in music programs requires more than good intentions. It demands genuine understanding.

Together, we'll explore Islamic perspectives on music, learn to schedule with cultural sensitivity, and discover Middle Eastern and North African repertoire that enriches our programming. Instead of accommodation as afterthought, we'll focus on building truly inclusive communities where all students belong.

Dr. André de Quadros is a professor of music at Boston University with affiliations in African, African American & Black Diaspora, Asian, Jewish, Muslim studies, prison education, and Forced Migration. As a choral conductor, artist, scholar, and human rights activist, he has worked in over 40 countries in the most diverse settings including professional ensembles, projects with prisons, psychosocial rehabilitation, refugees, and victims of sexual violence, torture, and trauma. His work crosses race and mass incarceration, peacebuilding, forced migration, and Islamic culture. He directs Common Ground Voices (Jerusalem), Common Ground Voices / La Frontera (Mexico-US), the Manado State University Choir (Indonesia), the Muslim Choral Ensemble (Sri Lanka), VOICES 21C (USA), and the World Muslim Choral Ensemble (Sri Lanka). He is the creative director of The Choral Commons. In 2019, he was a Distinguished Academic Visitor at the University of Cambridge. He has over 50 choral editions to his credit, and he has received awards from the American Choral Directors Association, Choral Arts New England, and Chorus America.

Free Registration

Monday, March 9th

7:00 PM ET

Please note that no recording of this webinar will be made public in order to protect the intellectual property of our presenters. Those wishing to join us must attend synchronously.