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Eve and Christmas Eve. Recent concert offerings have Sunday worship services, they perform major choral
included a program of spirituals and chorales for the concerts and choral works with orchestra every year.
Society for Christian Scholarship in Music; a multi- They have made several sacred music recordings, and
faith concert commemorating September 11; and a have been honored to sing at both the regional and
presentation of Bach’s St. John Passion in collaboration national ACDA conferences and for the North Texas
with the Chapel’s Evensong Singers. The Schola’s first Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church.
professional recording will be released in summer 2025. The choir has toured extensively to countries through-
out Europe, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
Zebulon M. Highben serves as director of
chapel music at Duke University Chapel Dana Effler serves as director of music
and associate professor of the practice of and arts ministries at First United Meth-
church music at Duke Divinity School. odist Church of Dallas, where she over-
He conducts the Duke University Cha- sees a graded choir and handbell pro-
pel Choir and Schola Cantorum, teaches courses in gram, the Rotunda Theatre program,
sacred music and worship, edits the Music from Duke and the Goodrich Gallery. She conducts the Chancel
Chapel choral series with MorningStar Music, and Choir, Men’s Chorus, Women’s Chorus, and Variations
oversees the Chapel’s extensive music program. More Youth Choir. Under her direction, the Chancel Choir
than seventy of Highben’s compositions are published has toured extensively throughout Europe, Canada,
by eight domestic publishing houses and by Gehrmans and the UK, and have sung for both regional and na-
Musikförlag in Sweden. He is a past recipient of The tional ACDA conferences and for the United Method-
Dale Warland Award in Choral Conducting from The ist Annual Conference. Effler earned her BME from
American Prize. Furman University and MMs in choral conducting and
vocal performance from Southern Methodist Univer-
sity.
First United Methodist Church of Dallas
Chancel Choir
Prairie View A&M University
Concert Chorale

The Chancel Choir of First United Methodist The Prairie View A&M University Concert Chorale
Church of Dallas is made up of volunteer singers from is the flagship choral ensemble of the university’s de-
around the Dallas metroplex. In addition to singing for partment of music. Our choir’s repertoire spans sev-

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