Tiguex is a large-scale musical super-composition by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Raven Chacon.
It consists of twenty overlapping movements to be performed over the span of a day across the entire City of Albuquerque on September 27, 2025.
Tiguex exists as an edition of lithograph prints of the score, which is in the form of a map of the city currently known as Albuquerque.
The score shows the geographic locations of where the movements will take place throughout the city, while also functioning as a temporal map, referencing the diverse landscapes of the central Rio Grande valley:
The Sandia mountains, the volcanoes of the West Mesa, railroads, waterways, conquistador trails, Route 66, and Sandia and Isleta Pueblos.
“Tiguex” comes from the Tiwa word meaning the valley between Sandia and Isleta pueblos.
Tiguex will premiere in Albuquerque, NM on September 27, 2025.
Tiguex is a collaboration with the Tamarind Institute, the City of Albuquerque Arts and Culture Office, and the UNM Department of Music, with fiscal sponsorship from the Albuquerque Community Foundation.
Support for Tiguex comes from Kris Vikmanis and Denny Creighton, the National Performance Network (NPN) Documentation & Storytelling Fund Project supported by the Doris Duke Foundation, the Frederick Hammersley Fund for the Arts at the Albuquerque Community Foundation, the Native Arts + Cultures Foundation, and the support of other individual donors.
To support the Tiguex project, please visit the Albuquerque Community Foundation’s support page for Tiguex, or scan this QR code:
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