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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As we’ve included more voices in Music by Request, we sometimes get requests that are explicitly political or have a particular point of view about polarizing current events. -
In 1926, the National High School Orchestra performed for the first time, inspiring Joe Maddy to create a summer music camp at Interlochen. -
IPR tour ambassador Sydney updates us on how different arts areas are involved with the tour and what will happen if Yo-Yo Ma doesn't play her song as written. -
IPR tour ambassador Ryan updates us on how he's preparing to give a world premiere performance and tells us which musicians have the hardest parts to play. -
IPR tour ambassador Sydney updates us on the song she's writing to perform with Yo-Yo Ma, the dress Interlochen students are designing for her and how her friend Wesley is helping her prepare. -
This year's Detroit Opera Resident Artists Brianna J. Robinson, Mia Mandineau, Cole Bellamy and Travis Leon Williams and Head of Music Nathalie Doucet visited IPR's Studio A. -
What if we try all kinds of things to reach all kinds of audiences with classical music without having to criticize the ways in which others are trying to do the same thing? -
Interlochen Arts Academy sophomore Ryan Crawford is a member of the orchestra that will play side-by-side with professional musicians in March. -
Interlochen Arts Academy senior Sydney Kassekert is writing an original song that she'll perform with Yo-Yo Ma in March.
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Classical IPR bids farewell to Scott Clemens and makes some programming changes.
