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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The Interlochen Arts Academy alum is in the room where it happens, playing viola and violin in the current Broadway tour of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical. -
The northern Michigan string collective founded by violist Joe Skerik and cellist Kyle Stachnik returns to the region for a series of summer concerts. -
We at Interlochen Public Radio are preparing for the real possibility of losing our federal funding. -
The Grammy-nominated hip-hop duo takes the stage at Great Lakes Center for the Arts this week. -
Michael Malis, Constantine Novotny and Ellie Falaris Ganelin present a recital of music from Greece and the Greek diaspora at the Alluvion this weekend. -
The musical "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder" opens this weekend at Traverse City's OTP. -
The internationally renowned pianist will perform on Saturday, August 2 in Interlochen's Kresge Auditorium. -
Monday, April 21 is the premiere of Intermezzo, Classical IPR's new daily program for kids and families. We also introduce the Well-Tempered Commute on weekday afternoons. -
The public is invited to an open house in the new space on Sunday, April 13. -
Tina Qu will take the helm as the Traverse City Philharmonic's concertmaster this September.
