The Music in the Real World Colloquium presents guest scholar André de Quadros, Thursday, January 30, 8:00 p.m., in Turner Recital Hall. The program, “From Broken Dreams to Shared Futures: Musicians Struggling for Justice,” will investigate the role that music plays in the world, including justice and equity, peacebuilding, and reconciliation. 

André de Quadros is a professor of music at Boston University with affiliations in African, African American, Asian, Jewish, Muslim studies, prison education, Forced Migration and Antiracist Research. 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 and In 2019 was a Distinguished Academic Visitor at the University of Cambridge. 

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Venue: Turner Hall, Vanderbilt University Blair School of Music 
Address: 2400 Blakemore Ave., Nashville, TN 37212 
Parking: Free parking is available at the Vanderbilt West Parking Garage on Childrens Way, directly across from Blair School of Music.