Raven Chacon with thingNY @ Library of Congress, Washington DC
Date: April 11, 2026
Time: 8:00 pm
thingNY will be in DC in Sat 4/11 and NYC on Mon 4/13 playing the music of Diné composer Raven Chacon. We premiered Raven’s octet Wave Upon Wave back in 2023, and in addition to a new version of that, we’ll be doing some graphic/conceptual scores from his collection For Zitkála-Šá and other small group pieces.
SAT APR 11 @ 8pm
TICKETS ARE FREE WITH RSVP loc.gov
Library of Congress
Thomas Jefferson Building
Coolidge Auditorium
10 1st St SE
Washington DC
Rescheduled from December 6, 2025.
Pre-concert Conversation with the Artists
Whittall Pavilion, 6:30 pm
Raven Chacon
For Zitkála-Šá (2017-2020)
Wave Upon Wave (2023)
world premiere (2025)
Players:
Gelsey Bell
Isabel Castellvi
Raven Chacon
Paul Pinto
Erin Rogers
Dave Ruder
Olivia Shortt
Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Music and a MacArthur Fellowship, Diné composer and sound artist Raven Chacon is known for poetic works that summon a sense of landscape, space and spirit. Experience an evocative, unique sound world when Chacon and colleagues from thingNY perform an evening of his recent chamber and conceptual compositions, and the world premiere of his 2025 commission from the Library’s Strickland Fund.