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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Recordings featuring Itzhak Perlman & Vladimir Ashkenazy, the original Broadway cast of "Camelot" and the Harlem Boys Choir were among this week's requests. -
In the Traverse City Philharmonic's Act 2 band, Jennifer Wesling and friends are having so much fun that they've added their own extra rehearsal. -
Classical IPR listeners sound off about how much talking they want to hear on the air. -
In the Traverse City Philharmonic's Act 2 band, Sharon Hill is learning to make a frowny face while playing Beethoven on the euphonium. -
A longtime member of the Interlochen staff, Jennifer Wesling is picking up sticks and learning to play percussion in the Act 2 band. -
What's the right balance of music and talking on Classical IPR? -
"Terra Infirma" features world premiere recordings of works by composer Reena Esmail, performed by harpist Yolanda Kondonassis and Interlochen Arts Academy student musicians. -
Revisit the first National High School Orchestra program, presented April 16, 1926 in Detroit's Orchestra Hall. -
In retirement, Sharon Hill is picking up a euphonium and playing in the Traverse City Philharmonic's Act 2 band. -
Hear the duo play music by Astor Piazzolla in a recital recorded at the Music House Museum.
