Zebulon M. Highben

Zebulon M. Highben is an award-winning conductor, composer, and church musician, who serves as Associate Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at Muskingum University. Highben's choral and liturgical music is frequently commissioned and widely performed by churches, schools, and arts organizations. More than fifty of his compositions have been published by Augsburg Fortress, Boosey & Hawkes, Colla Voce, E. C. Schirmer, GIA, Kjos, and MorningStar Music, and in Sweden by Gehrmans Musikförlag. He has received honors and awards from the American Composers Forum, The American Prize, the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians, ASCAP, and the Greater Columbus Arts Council. Choirs under Zebulon's direction have toured internationally and have been featured at numerous conferences and festivals. He has served as a guest conductor, clinician, and lecturer throughout the United States, and represented the U.S. as a Conducting Fellow in ACDA’s International Conductors Exchange Program with South Korea. In 2015, he won The American Prize in Conducting (College/University Chorus Division). Highben studied at Ohio State University, Luther Seminary, and St. Olaf College, and holds the DMA in choral conducting from the College of Music at Michigan State University.