Born in London, UK, Dawn Chambers has lived in New Mexico since 1981. Several years ago she was
asked to write the music for the PBS documentary “Kinaalda’, a Navajo Rite of Passage,” which started
a hitherto undreamed-of addiction to composition. She has since completed a Ph.D. in composition from Stony Brook University, where she studied with Sheila Silver, Dan Weymouth and Peter Winkler.

While at Stony Brook she won honorable mention in the International Society of Bassists competition
for Cante, premiered her Spinstersongs in San Francisco and Manhattan, won the Ackerman award, and was one of the main organizers of the Music for Peace festival, in which some two hundred concerts took place over one weekend worldwide.

When not teaching, playing or writing music, she enjoys her land in the Datil Mountains and driving to powwows.