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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Siggy brings experience in orchestral musicianship, radio hosting and music librarianship. -
This week's requests included iconic film soundtracks, contemporary choral music, performances from northern Michigan and music for listeners' wedding anniversaries. -
Recorded at the Alluvion in Traverse City, "Another Shore, Another Country" features Detroit-based Greek American musicians Michael Malis and Constantine Novotny. -
Hear Interlochen Arts Academy and Camp student musicians perform music by legendary trumpeter, composer and bandleader Wynton Marsalis, including the Blues Symphony and his Cello Concerto. -
Listen back to Classical IPR's live broadcast of the 99th annual 'Les Préludes' at the close of the 2026 Interlochen Arts Camp season. -
What should become of decades of excellent recordings of Interlochen Arts Academy and Camp student performances that also include adults who are alleged to have caused great harm to students? -
Listen back to Classical IPR's live broadcast of the World Youth Symphony Orchestra during week 5 of the 99th Interlochen Arts Camp season. -
The musicians of Viridian Strings previewed this weekend's recitals of music by Johannes Brahms and Robert Schumann. They'll also appear in Classical IPR's Happy Hour at the Little Fleet and co-host a World Youth Symphony Orchestra broadcast. -
Listen back to Classical IPR's live broadcast of the World Youth Symphony Orchestra during week 4 of the 99th Interlochen Arts Camp season. -
McGlaughlin hosted award-winning classical music programs including "Exploring Music" and "Saint Paul Sunday."
