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| Born | 1977 |
| Hometown | Fort Defiance, Arizona, United States |
| Spouse | Candice Hopkins |
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When Right-Wing Extremists Crashed the French Drone Festival
- Set among ruins that predate Stonehenge, You Origin festival reshaped the work of Sunn O)))’s Stephen O’Malley, Kali Malone, and more around meditative surroundings—despite some unwanted guests.
Albuquerque Journal, N.M.Albuquerque Museum purchases of five new works, plus prints and photographs
- Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.
Tickets on sale for Walker Art Center’s newly announced 2022-23 performing arts season
- Albuquerque Journal, N.M.
EDITORIAL: Pulitzer honors NM artist
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Pulitzer Prize for music awarded to 'Voiceless Mass,' a work premiered by Milwaukee's Present Music
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Albuquerque composer, artist Raven Chacon wins 2022 Pulitzer for large ensemble work
May 10—Raven Chacon discovered he was the talk of the town via a text message. And it was music to his ears. The Albuquerque-based chamber music composer and noise artist was awarded the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for music for a large ensemble work he composed in late 2021 specifically for an organ in the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist in Milwaukee. Voiceless Mass, was described by the ...
- EntertainmentAlbuquerque Journal, N.M.
A voice for the 'Voiceless': Diné composer Raven Chacon wins the Pulitzer Prize for Music
May 9—Diné composer, performer and installation artist Raven Chacon has won the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his composition "Voiceless Mass." He is the first Native composer to win a Pulitzer. "This work considers the spaces in which we gather, the history of access of these spaces, and the land upon which these buildings sit," Chacon wrote in his Pulitzer Prize entry questionnaire. "Though ...
- EntertainmentLA Times
Commentary: Raven Chacon's 'Voiceless Mass' magnifies unsung voices into the realm of the sacred
Native American composer Raven Chacon's "Voiceless Mass" for organ ensemble is the winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for music.
- U.S.Variety
Pulitzer Prizes Include James Ijames for ‘Fat Ham,’ Raven Chacon for ‘Voiceless Mass’
James Ijames and Raven Chacon are among the recipients of the 2022 Pulitzer Prizes. The prestigious Pulitzer Prizes honor achievements across journalism, literature, theater and music. This year’s recipients were announced this year’s Pulitzer Prize administrator, Associated Press vice president and global enterprise editor Marjorie Miller, at a press conference on Monday, hosted at Columbia […]
- EntertainmentAssociated Press
Joshua Cohen, the late Winfred Rembert win arts Pulitzers
Joshua Cohen's “The Netanyahus,” a comic and rigorous campus novel based on the true story of the father of former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seeking a job in academia, has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Benzion Netanyahu, who died in 2012, was a medieval historian and ultra-nationalist who taught at several American schools, including the University of Denver and Cornell University. “The Netanyahus” is set around 1959-60 and centers on a Jewish historian at a university lo
- U.S.Associated Press
Pulitzers Live Updates: Slain photographer among winners
A Reuters photographer who was killed while covering fighting in Afghanistan was part of a team that took home the Pulitzer for feature photography. Danish Siddiqui and his colleagues Adnan Abidi, Sanna Irshad Mattoo and Amit Dave won for images depicting the toll of the COVID-19 pandemic in India. Siddiqui, 38, had been embedded with Afghan special forces in July and was killed as the commando unit battled for control of a crossing on the border between southern Afghanistan and Pakistan.
- EntertainmentMilwaukee Journal Sentinel
Guest composer creates 'Voiceless Mass' for Present Music's Thanksgiving concert
Diné (Navajo) composer Raven Chacon created 'Voiceless Mass' for Present Music's Thanksgiving concert
- EntertainmentLA Times
The Industry, L.A.'s groundbreaking opera company, casts new leaders
The experimental opera company behind 'Sweet Land,' 'Hopscotch' and 'Invisible Cities' turns the artistic director position into a cooperative.
