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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Boal served as President and Director of Arts and Performance Programs for National Public Radio before becoming president of Interlochen Center for the Arts. -
The Kodan Quintet is in residence at IPR this week, recording music for an upcoming album, performing concerts and working with Interlochen students.
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Is it ever okay for a radio station to censor content? -
Classical IPR's current weekday programming schedule will not change at present. -
The multifaceted pianist visited IPR's Studio A ahead of her performance this weekend with the Traverse Symphony Orchestra. -
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. -
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. -
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.
