Amanda Sewell
Music DirectorDr. Amanda Sewell joined the staff at Interlochen Public Radio in 2015 and has served as the music director since 2019.
Sewell manages the music staff and programming at Classical IPR.
Since 2018, Sewell has overseen the addition of archival recordings of Interlochen student performances to IPR's broadcast library. She also hosts and produces The Interlochen Collection, a weekly program featuring those archival recordings.
Her first book, "Wendy Carlos: A Biography," was published by Oxford University Press in 2020 and reviewed favorably by outlets including Kirkus, the Washington Post and the Guardian. Critic Tim Page, writing for the Wall Street Journal, called Sewell's biography "a happy rarity among academic arts books - a grounded, thoughtful, appreciative study that maintains focus on its subject and her milieu, all the while paying the reader the courtesy of elegant prose."
Sewell's musicological scholarship has also appeared in the Journal of the Society for American Music, the Journal of Popular Music Studies and the Cambridge Companion to Hip Hop.
She holds a Ph.D. in musicology from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.
A respected member of the musicological scholarly community, Sewell is often invited to give keynote addresses and lead workshops pertaining to her work in public radio.
She can be reached by emailing amanda.sewell@interlochen.org
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Celebrate the career of tubist Roger Bobo, from his time at Interlochen's National Music Camp to his quarter of a century with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
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Annie Walton, Sophie Choy, Jonathan Miller, Henry Price and Mauricio García de Jesús - or the My Friend quintet - performed music of Eric Ewazen. They and other Interlochen Arts Academy students are going on tour in New York later this month.
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Revisit this May 1977 performance from Interlochen Arts Academy, featuring guest conductor Gregg Smith.
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This episode of the Interlochen Collection features works inspired by composers' travels to Spain, Italy and the United States - performed by Interlochen Arts Academy and Camp students.
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Classical IPR recently surveyed listeners about long-running programs Music by Request, Repose and the Metropolitan Opera. Read some of the survey results and the answers to your questions here.
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In this 1977 concert at Interlochen's National Music Camp, Howard Hanson conducted three of his own works, including the world premiere of the Sea Symphony on poems of Walt Whitman.
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Calliope Brass is in residence at IPR this week, recording music for a new album, working with Interlochen students and giving public performances.
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Hear an entire Beethoven symphony with each movement performed by Interlochen student ensembles from different decades.
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In April 1963, Interlochen's founder Joseph E. Maddy spoke with Frederick Fennell about the earliest days of Interlochen Arts Academy.
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Hear a variety of psalm settings performed by decades of students from Interlochen Arts Camp and Academy.