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 oversees the 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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Two TCAPS students and past Music Boosters scholarship recipients performed in IPR's Studio A. -
Revisit a 1974 radio broadcast from Interlochen, featuring Holst's The Planets.
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This week's requests included music memorials, an operatic mad scene and music for two pianos.
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Hear the Hummel Trio's recent recital with special guest Paul Sonner.
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Tina Qu's playing has been heard at the Oscars, in the concert hall and in Hollywood blockbuster films. Meet Interlochen's new instructor of violin.
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This episode features musical legends from Norse, Greek, Middle Eastern, Roman, and Anishinaabe mythology.
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This week's requests included favorites by Ravel, Gershwin and Strauss, plus multiple nocturnes and two selections sung by Andrea Bocelli.
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The orchestra's Saturday concert is called "Two Romantic Masters" and features cellist Evelyn Cho.
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Hear the April 2022 performance from Corson Auditorium with music of Rutter, Brahms, Mozart, Tchaikovsky and more.
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The organization recently awarded almost $27,000 in scholarships to 38 music students in the Grand Traverse region.
