Phyllis E. Zimmerman (1934–2012) was an American composer, choral conductor, and music educator.
She studied vocal performance at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota with conductor Paul J. Christiansen, graduating in 1959.
[1] Zimmerman taught music and directed choirs at Churchill Area High School in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania before becoming the choral director at Santa Barbara (California) High School, where she taught from 1969 to 1995.
Her choirs toured Europe several times and performed in Romania by invitation of the U.S. State Department.
[3] Following her retirement in 1995, Zimmerman founded the Canticle A Cappella Choir, a community choir that recorded several CDs and performed on National Public Radio and NBC-TV.