Biography
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Born
1977 (age 48)
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Born In
Fort Defiance, Apache County, Arizona, United States
Raven Chacon (born Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation, Arizona, United States, 1977) is an American composer and artist. He is known for being a composer of chamber music as well as being a solo performer of experimental noise music. As an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, he is also one of the few American Indian classical composers and educators of "New Native Art."
Chacon has recorded many works for classical and electronic instruments and ensembles and has had many performances and exhibits of his work across the U.S. as well as Europe and New Zealand. He has received commissions from the University of Mary Washington and the ERGO Ensemble.
He was a student of James Tenney, Morton Subotnick, and Wadada Leo Smith, while he was studying music at the California Institute of the Arts.
He lives in Los Angeles, California. He has served as Composer-in-Residence with the Native American Composers Apprenticeship Project.
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