Raven Chacon

Raven Chacon is a composer, performer, and installation artist born at Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation. A recording artist since 1999, Chacon has appeared on over eighty releases on national and international labels. He has exhibited, performed, or had works performed at LACMA, SITE Santa Fe, and The Kennedy Center, and in the Whitney Biennial, Borealis Festival, among others. As an educator, Chacon is the senior composer mentor for the Native American Composer Apprentice Project (NACAP). In 2022, he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Music, for his composition Voiceless Mass, and in 2023 was named a MacArthur Fellow.