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title: Welcome to the Augsburg Fortress blog! | Zebulon Highben
description: Zebulon M. Highben is director of Chapel Music at Duke University Chapel and associate professor of the practice of church music at Duke Divinity School (Durham, North Carolina). He teaches courses in liturgy and sacred music, conducts the Duke Chapel Choir and Schola Cantorum, and oversees Duke Chapel’s extensive music program. An award-winning conductor, hymnwriter, and composer, he has published more than seventy compositions in the United States and Sweden, and edited both the Augsburg Chorale Book (2017) and the Augsburg Motet Book (2013). Highben studied at Ohio State University, Luther Seminary, St. Olaf College, and Michigan State University, and is an ordained deacon in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
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### [Beyond the Score: The Musical Mind of Zebulon M. Highben](https://blog.augsburgfortress.org/beyond-the-score-the-musical-mind-of-zebulon-highben)

 By [**Zebulon Highben**](https://blog.augsburgfortress.org/author/zebulon-highben) November 20, 2025

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