Third Prize, The American Prize in Choral Performance
NationalThe American Prize · 2024Community Division. Awarded to the Duke University Chapel Choir and Zebulon M. Highben, conductor.More about this award
Finalist, The American Prize in Composition
NationalThe American Prize · 2024Shorter Choral works, Professional Division. Awarded for "Easter Dawn" and "God Alone Be Praised: AD LUCEM."More about this award
Second Prize, Edwin Fissinger Choral Composition Competition
NationalNorth Dakota State University · 2024Composition award for "Let There Be Singing." Text and music by Zebulon M. Highben. SATB voices, soloists, and piano. Manuscript.More about this award
Honourable Mention, Sir David Willcocks Carol Competition
InternationalThe Bach Choir · 2023Composition award for "There Is No Rose." SATB voices. MorningStar Music, in press.More about this award
Weiger Lepke-Sims Family Sacred Music Award
NationalAmerican Harp Society · 2023Composition award for "A Christmas Carol." Text by G. K. Chesterton, music by Zebulon M. Highben. SATB voices and harp. MorningStar Music, 50-0241.More about this award
Finalist, The American Prize in Virtual Performance
NationalThe American Prize · 2022Zebulon Highben and Duke University Chapel Choir, national finalists, The American Prize in Virtual Performance (Artists Performing Remotely), Community Division.More about this award
Winner, 2020 Hymn Search
InternationalThe Hymn Society in the United States and Canada · 2020Hymn competition award for "The Rain Falls in Its Season."More about this award
In the News
Published December 19, 2024
How Christmas Carols Come to Be
Published April 7, 2021
Duke University Chapel Choir finds musical harmony online
Published February 16, 2021
The power of a song
Published January 19, 2021
A COVID memorial shared across the country
Published December 9, 2020
National partnership to strengthen church music education at Duke and beyond
Published December 7, 2020
Online Messiah performance attracts large audience
Published December 3, 2019
Christmas program at Duke Chapel to get national broadcast
Published May 17, 2019
Church musician and scholar Zebulon Highben to lead music program at Duke Chapel
