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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Hear Interlochen Arts Academy and Camp student ensembles perform music inspired by literature - from Goethe to Voltaire to fairy tale to fantasy.
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Effective June 1, the Traverse Symphony Orchestra will become the Traverse City Philharmonic, a name they say more effectively encompasses their programming and mission.
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In October 1998, world-renowned choral conductor Sir David Willcocks visited northern Michigan, where he conducted choirs from Interlochen and northern Michigan.
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The person in this role will host a daily on-air shift on Classical IPR while creating and maintaining the station's digital content.
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This week's episode of "From the Top" was recorded at Interlochen Public Radio and features students from Interlochen Arts Academy and across the state of Michigan.
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Hear performances of Beethoven's Symphony no. 5 and String Quartet no. 11 "Serioso" from Interlochen Arts Camp 2023.
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Hear choral music by 20th- and 21st-century composers including Emma Lou Diemer, Gwyneth Walker, Eric Whitacre, Chen Yi and more.
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This week's program features decades of Interlochen Arts Academy and Camp students performing music from the operatic stage.
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Revisit a concert from July 2023 featuring the World Youth Symphony Orchestra and members of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Jader Bignamini conducts Mahler's Symphony no. 1.
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How does a long-running show like Music by Request stay interesting and relevant to its current audiences while continuing to grow new audiences? Do we change the program to try to freshen it up, or do we decide the program has run its course and replace it?