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 musicians of Viridian Strings return to Studio A with music of Jean Cras and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. They're giving four free recitals in Elk Rapids, Suttons Bay, Frankfort and Interlochen. -
IPR’s Sound Garden Project is a residency that places classical chamber music ensembles in Michigan communities and challenges them to become part of that community's daily life. -
Viridian Strings returns to Northern Michigan, this time with a double bass in the mix. -
After 10 weeks of rehearsals, the Act 2 band members are preparing for their first performance and deciding if they want to move on to the Act 3 band in the fall. -
This episode includes requests covering different genres such as opera, musicals, symphonies, and concerti. -
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.
