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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This program revisits Interlochen’s Willcocks Choral Festival from 1998, with music conducted by Sir David Willcocks. -
The multifaceted pianist visited IPR's Studio A ahead of her performance this weekend with the Traverse Symphony Orchestra.
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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 an archival recording of the 1942 world premiere of Percy Grainger's transcription of Cesar Franck's Choral no. 2, performed at Interlochen's National Music Camp.
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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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IPR's Sound Garden Project musicians approached people at gas stations, golf courses, laundromats and grocery stores, playing music for them and asking for their opinions.
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The double doctorate and Interlochen Arts Academy collaborative pianist visited Studio A to give a preview of this weekend's Benzie Area Symphony Orchestra concert.
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The collective of classical musicians brings their groundbreaking and adventurous performances to northern Michigan this week.
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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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Two Beethoven piano favorites, a scheming Lady Macbeth and film music by Rachel Portman were among this week's listener selections
