André de Quadros
André de Quadros is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Music at Monash University, where he coordinates the Performance programme and is musical director of the New Monash Orchestra, the Monash Sinfonia, the Monash Women’s Choir and Viva Voce.
André de Quadros studied the violin from an early age and later studied conducting at the Bombay School of Music under the distinguished German conductor Joachim Buehler. Further study took him to La Trobe University, the University of Melbourne, the Hochschule für Darstellende Kunst ‘Mozarteum’ in Salzburg on a prestigious DAAD scholarship, and the Victorian College of the Arts, where he worked with the conductor Robert Rosen.
He has conducted and lectured across Australia and abroad, including in India, Belgium, Scandinavia, Canada, Germany, the United States and Japan. Ensembles under his direction have included the Baden-Baden Philharmonic Orchestra, the Nusantara Chamber Orchestra in Jakarta, the National Youth Choir of Great Britain, the Irkutsk State Philharmonic Orchestra, the Shiki Daikunokai Choir and Orchestra in Japan, and the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra.
André de Quadros is featured on the following titles
Tchaikovsky Concerto / Shostakovich Song of the Forests
The New Monash Orchestra under André de Quadros joins pianist Yuri Rozum, the Monash Women's Choir and Viva Voce in an all-Russian programme: Tchaikovsky's first piano concerto and Shostakovich's rarely heard Song of the Forests, his first major work for choir and orchestra.
Moscow State RTV Symphony Orchestra
Live from Moscow Radio Hall in December 1998, André de Quadros leads the Moscow State RTV Symphony Orchestra with pianist Yuri Rozum in Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini and Beethoven's Seventh Symphony.
New Monash Orchestra
Conducted by André de Quadros, the New Monash Orchestra offers a live programme of Shostakovich, Mahler and Beethoven, captured at the Robert Blackwood Hall.
Te Deum
Conductor André de Quadros assembles six highly acclaimed choirs, the New Monash Orchestra, tenor soloist Dwayne Jones and organist Linda Kent for Berlioz’s monumental Te Deum.
André de Quadros also appears on
Sebastian's Greatest Adventure
George Dreyfus’s score for the 1963 ABC children’s series Sebastian the Fox returns in a two-disc set: a CD of the soundtrack and a DVD of restored episodes with a newly recorded orchestral version.
Worlds Apart
Worlds Apart gathers music for piano duet, two and three pianos from France and Australia. At its centre is the first Australian recording of Max Bruch’s Concerto for two pianos and orchestra.