Suraya Mohamed
Suraya Mohamed is a three-time Peabody Award-winning producer, sound designer and editor. She currently serves as the project manager for Jazz Night In America and is a contributing producer on the Alt.Latino podcast. She also produces NPR's holiday specials package, including Tinsel Tales, Hanukkah Lights, Toast Of The Nation, Pink Martini's Joy To The World: A Holiday Spectacular and most recently Hamilton: A Story Of US. You'll also find her work on the Tiny Desk series as either a producer or engineer.
A graduate of the Peabody Conservatory of Music's with degrees in Viola Performance and Recording Arts and Sciences, Mohamed specializes in music and technology. Her Tonmeister (German: "sound master") classification is punctuated by her experience working as both an engineer and a producer in many genres.
With a wide range of musical interests and experience, Mohamed played bass in a high school go-go band, has worked as a substitute violist with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and currently performs with a Washington, D.C., indie-rock band.
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The Aspen Music School students arrived early at the Zen Garden, a peaceful plot on the campus of the Aspen Ideas Festival. They had never performed with a rapper before, so there was a nervous excitement in the air. -
Watch Alynda Segarra tell personal stories through songs as wide-screen as the Elk Mountains in the background. -
The Aspen Ideas Festival campus spans 40 acres and is filled with art installations, event venues, grassy fields and picturesque gardens. Sounds perfect, right? But when we tried to find a place to record Jonathan Scales’ steelpans, the landscape actually presented a challenge. -
Watch the mandolinist play solo and in collaboration with violinist Sofia Hashemi-Asasi and students from the Aspen Music school. -
Watch the guitarist and songwriter perform outside on the idyllic Aspen Ideas Festival campus. -
The musical icons perform new songs from their forthcoming album Milton + esperanza in a rare video performance. -
The boundary-pushing singer-songwriter brings her country sensibility to the Tiny Desk. -
The country and bluegrass music legend performs an excellent set with a finale fit for church. -
NPR unveils the very first performance for Tiny Desk Concerts JAPAN, featuring talented Japanese singer and pianist Fujii Kaze. -
One of post-apartheid South Africa's most influential musicians comes to the Tiny Desk.
