Andre de Quadros

Andre de Quadros

Director, School of Music. Professor of Music and Chair, Department of Music Education. Artistic Director, Boston University Tanglewood Institute. BA, University of Bombay; Diploma Humanities, La Trobe University; Grad Diploma Movement and Dance, University of Melbourne; Grad Diploma Music, Victorian College of the Arts; Master of Education, La Trobe University; Grad Cert of Higher Education, Monash University; graduate studies at Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. Violin studies with Adrian de Mello; Conducting studies with Joachim Buehler and Robert Rosen. DAAD scholarship 1979-1980 for study at the Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg.

Conducting engagements of note include Moscow State Symphony Orchestra, Prokofiev Symphony Orchestra (Ukraine), National Youth Choir of Great Britain, Baden-Baden Orchester, Shiki Daikunokai Choir and Orchestra (Japan), Penang State Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Invited presentations include American Orff Schulwerk Association (Philadelphia), World Symposium of Choral Music (Vancouver), Deutscher Sängerbund (Würzburg), National Choral Seminar (Singapore).

Former position Associate Professor and Director of Music Performance at Monash University School of Music - Conservatorium, Australia. Awards include Monash University Vice-Chancellor and President's Special Commendation for Distinguished Teaching. Accredited Teacher, SEDA (UK). Artistic Director, Melbourne International Festival of Choirs. Editor, Music of Asia and the Pacific, Earthsongs, Oregon. Board member, International Federation for Choral Music, and Chair of its Multicultural and Ethnic Commission. Member, Editorial Committee, Music Education International (International Society for Music Education journal). Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Educational Inquiry. Member, Advisory Board, Boston University Center for Excellence in Teaching. Present position, 2001.

Sue Fay Allen

Sue Fay Allen has taught all academic levels, including college. She retired from the Amherst Central School System, where she taught at Amherst Middle School, and was also Music Coordinator for the district. Over four hundred fifty students of the 700 students in the school elected to be in Sue Fay's four Choirs and six ensembles. Her Choral groups have been chosen through taped audition to perform at conventions of NYSSMA, ACDA and MENC. She is known for her dynamic workshops on adolescent voice. Through the years, she has guest conducted over fifty district, county, area all-states and festival choruses.

Ms. Allen is now the music director and founder of the Amherst Bel Canto Choirs, three choirs for 120 choristers, grades 4-12, selected from over twenty area schools. She founded and still directs Community Night at the Philharmonic, a program which enables schools to give pre-concert performances and attend Buffalo Philharmonic Concerts at Kleinhans Music Hall.

In recognition of her work she has received NYSSMA's "Distinguished Service in Music Education Award", Amherst's "Outstanding Teacher Award", Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra's "Outstanding Contribution to Music Education Award" and the Erie County Music Educators Association's "Excellence in Music Education Award". Crane School of Music selected her as recipient of the "Helen Hosmer Award, in Recognition of Outstanding Professional Achievement in the Teaching of Music." Last summer she was chosen to receive the "Outstanding Choral Conductor Award" from NY's American Choral Director's Association.

Throughout her career her articles on adolescent voice and repertoire have been published by state and national musical journals and she served for four years as an editor of the national "Music Educators Journal". She is listed in Who's Who in American Teachers, Who's Who in American Women and Who's Who in International Music and Musicians.

In her private life she is married to Carl Klingenschmitt, an electrical engineer. They live on a farm, and have four children and five absolutely perfect grandchildren.