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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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.
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In 1992, the Interlochen Arts Academy Orchestra and Choir traveled to Lincoln Center to perform in a celebration of Mozart's bicentennial.
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Music by John Rutter and George Frideric Handel dominated this Easter weekend program.
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Hear Interlochen Arts Academy and Camp student ensembles perform music inspired by literature - from Goethe to Voltaire to fairy tale to fantasy.
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Effective June 1, the Traverse Symphony Orchestra will become the Traverse City Philharmonic, a name they say more effectively encompasses their programming and mission.