''Voiceless Mass'' by

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-American composer

Raven Chacon Raven Chacon (born 1977) is a Diné-American composer, musician and artist. Born in Fort Defiance, Arizona within the Navajo Nation, Chacon became the first Native American to win a Pulitzer Prize for Music, for his '' Voiceless Mass'' in 2022. ...

was the winner of the 2022

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. The work was written specifically for the pipe organ at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist (

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) and it premiered at the cathedral on November 21, 2021.

Composition

The work is scored for the organ and flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, two percussionists, strings and sine tones.

References

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