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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Two high school student wind quintets from Interlochen Arts Camp visited Studio A to perform music by 20th-century composers Carl Nielsen and Maurice Ravel. -
This Saturday evening, Jader Bignamini conducts the Detroit Symphony Orchestra at Interlochen in the "Eroica" Symphony by Beethoven and "Don Juan" by Strauss. -
Sam Crespino, Josiah Dean-Ware, Connor Dively, Emi Greenfield, Aiden Ledbetter and Armin Schulz-Baldes visited IPR's Studio A to perform the jazz standard "Misty." -
Hear music written by composers when they were in their teens, performed by decades of student ensembles from Interlochen Arts Camp and Academy. -
Composer Bobby Ge on "Sighting the Swallow," a piece that gets its Interlochen premiere with the World Youth Symphony Orchestra this weekend. -
Anna Snecinski and Santiago Ramirez are high school pianists at Interlochen Arts Camp. They visited Studio A to perform an original piece inspired by a Colombian dance and a Brahms intermezzo. -
Hear decades of Interlochen Arts Academy and Camp students perform American hymns, dances, and patriotic and folk songs - plus, music about baseball! -
Interlochen Arts Camp high school piano students Kotoha Inoue and Olivia Sexton performed music of Tchaikovsky and Bach recently in IPR's Studio A. -
The new album "Pale Blue Dot" by classical guitar duo Cochran & McAllister was recorded in The Cathedral Barn at Traverse City's Historic Barns Park -
In this 1977 concert at Interlochen's National Music Camp, Howard Hanson conducted three of his own works, including the world premiere of the Sea Symphony on poems of Walt Whitman.
