About me
Zebulon M. Highben is director of Chapel music and associate professor of the practice of church music at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. He conducts the Duke Chapel Choir and Schola Cantorum; oversees Duke Chapel’s extensive music program; teaches courses in sacred music and worship at Duke Divinity School; and edits the “Music from Duke Chapel” choral series with MorningStar Music/ECS Publishing Group.
More than seventy of Zebulon’s anthems, hymns, and liturgical compositions are published by eight domestic publishing houses and by Gehrmans Musikförlag in Sweden. Compositional honors include awards from the American Composers Forum, the American Harp Society, The American Prize, the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians, ASCAP, the Bach Choir (UK), and The Hymn Society. His research has been published in numerous journals, including The Hymn and Choral Journal. He compiled and edited the Augsburg Motet Book (2013) and the Augsburg Chorale Book (2017), and co-edited With a Voice of Singing: Essays on Children, Choirs, and Music in the Church, a Festschrift in honor of Ronald A. Nelson. Zebulon currently serves as executive editor of The Chapel Hymnal, forthcoming from Duke University Chapel and MorningStar Music.
