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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Cristian Măcelaru has been has been appointed the new music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Măcelaru is an Interlochen alum as well as artistic director and principal conductor of Interlochen's World Youth Symphony Orchestra.
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Bill Banfield's new opera "Edmonia" takes the stage at Interlochen Center for the Arts starting May 3, 2024. Get all the details about the opera and learn how you can experience it.
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This program features performances from the 2001-02 Interlochen Arts Academy Orchestra, conducted by Matthew Hazelwood, together with visiting orchestra, the Costa Rica Youth Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Marvin Araya.
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In 1931, Howard Hanson gave part of his Symphony no. 2 "Romantic" to Joe Maddy and the National Music Camp for its radio broadcasting signature.
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Archival recordings of Debussy's Petite Suite, La Mer, etudes and more, performed by Interlochen faculty and students
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Ted Beiderwieden volunteered at IPR hundreds of hours every year, earning Interlochen's Volunteer of the Year Award in 2018, 2019 and 2020. He recently passed away at the age of 87.
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The annual Rosalyn Tureck Memorial Concert features Interlochen Arts Academy students performing Bach's music in honor of the late scholar and pianist. We meet student pianists Viviane Kim and Kené Obiaya for a preview.
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Hear musical settings of Norse, Greek, Middle Eastern, Roman, and Anishinaabe legends, all performed by Interlochen Arts Academy and Camp students.
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Since 1987, Frank Slaughter has asked his wife Maurine to "turn on the side light" at the end of every episode of "Repose."
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'Making music exciting again': Soprano Amber Cierra Merritt brings 'Edmonia' title character to lifeSoprano Amber Cierra Merritt will portray sculptor Edmonia Lewis in the world premiere of the opera "Edmonia" by composer Bill Banfield - happening in May at Interlochen Center for the Arts.