Assistant Professor Alex Wier and Associate Professor Jennifer Clippert (BFA 1999, Music Performance) are performers on “Voiceless Mass,” an album that made it onto Bandcamp’s Best of 2025 list in the Best of Contemporary Classical Music category. Released in April 2025 by New World Records, the album can be traced to a collaboration that began with a site-specific commission and subsequent world premiere of the Voiceless Mass in 2021.
That premiere went on to play a pivotal role in Chacon’s 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Music, with video from the Present Music performance submitted as part of his winning entry. Following the Pulitzer recognition, Present Music recorded Voiceless Mass along with two additional Chacon works, resulting in the album earning national attention. The Bandcamp feature highlights the recording’s striking instrumental textures, including a distinctive glass cadenza performed by Wier.