Raven Chacon, born 1977 in Fort Defiance, Arizona, is the first Native American to win a Pulitzer Prize for Music. In 2021, Chacon composed Voiceless Mass, written for the pipe organ at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. and it premiered there November 21, 2021. It was this composition that won him the award in 2022.
He has won numerous awards for his music, including the Berlin Prize by the American Academy in Berlin.
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