Vancouver New Music presents Diné composer Raven Chacon’s Voiceless Mass, November 18

Pulitzer Prize-winning piece creates space for historically unsung voices

SPONSORED POST BY Vancouver New Music

Raven Chacon. Photo by Neil Santos

Vancouver New Music presents the Vancouver premiere of Diné composer Raven Chacon’s 2022 Pulitzer Prize-winning piece Voiceless Mass on November 18 at 8 pm at the Pacific Spirit United Church. An artist chat takes place prior to the show at 7:15 pm.

A composer, performer, and installation artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation, Chacon is notably the first Indigenous composer to win a Pulitzer Prize for music, and a recent recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship.

Voiceless Mass, a story without words, creates an opportunity for historically unsung voices to remake the weighted space of the church. Using the Pacific Spirit United Church’s impressive pipe organ, a 12-musician ensemble will craft a spatialized, immersive sound experience for the audience.

Voiceless Mass is presented along with ...lahgo adil’i dine doo yeehosinilgii yidaaghi (for large ensemble), which translated from Navajo means “acting strangely or differently in the company of strangers”.

Tickets and more details are available here.

Post sponsored by Vancouver New Music.