Live @ LOW END | Raven Chacon

This performance is part of Bemis Center’s 5 Years @ LOW END anniversary celebration. Raven Chacon was Bemis Center’s inaugural Sound Art + Experimental Music Artist-in-Residence in Summer 2019 and serves on the program’s advisory committee.

Raven Chacon is a composer, performer, and installation artist born at Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation. A recording artist over the span of 22 years, Chacon has appeared on over eighty releases on national and international labels. He has exhibited, performed, or had works performed at LACMA, the Whitney Biennial, Borealis Festival, SITE Santa Fe, the Kennedy Center, and more.

As an educator, Chacon is the senior composer mentor for the Native American Composer Apprentice Project (NACAP). In 2022, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music for his composition Voiceless Mass, and in 2023 was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship.