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The UCSB Chamber Choir Touring Fund

The UCSB Chamber Choir is the flagship choral ensemble at UCSB, representing excellence in vocal talent, musicianship, and professionalism. The Chamber Choir builds recruitment interest and alumni relationships through yearly domestic and international tours. Please support our future tours of the California Central Coast('24), New England('25), and Japan('26). To give to this fund, please note "Chamber Choir Touring Fund" in your kind donation.
 

Carl Zytowski Vocal Award

On the occasion of the UCSB Schubertians' 20th Anniversary Concert on February 19, 1984, Schubertian alumni established the Carl Zytowski Vocal Award in honor of their director and mentor, Carl Zytowski. Through the years this fund has awarded many vocal students in UCSB’s Department of Music. In November of 2019, almost a year after Carl’s passing, the Schubertians came together to celebrate their beloved professor with a memorial concert in his honor. Many Schubertian alumni traveled across the country to UC Santa Barbara, to pay their respects to Carl and sing together in their group’s original venue, Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall. They also came together to create renewed interest in the Carl Zytowski Vocal Award, paying homage to Carl and his support of Music students throughout his years of teaching and beyond. If you would like to help continue Carl Zytowski’s legacy, please consider making a contribution to this award.

Patrick Rappleye Memorial Scholarship for Brass

The scholarship is named for Patrick Rappleye, a UC Santa Barbara horn graduate (Bachelor of Music 2006 with highest honors), who passed away at age 25. He was known for his participation in the Kendall Betts Horn Camp, American Horn Competition, and the Ameropa Chamber Music Festival in Prague. He also published an interview with Daniel Wood, of the QUADRE Horn Quartet.

Patrick was an excellent student and musician, winning numerous awards and scholarships in high school and college. His passion was the horn, but he also played piano, drums, and other brass instruments. He worked his way through UCSB teaching piano and music theory and giving private music lessons.

However, music was not Pat’s only talent. He could cook a gourmet meal, build a website, fix the plumbing and repair electrical appliances. He loved his high-tech toys: his computer, digital camera, and iPhone, all of which he could operate with great expertise. He inherited his mother’s love of nature and became an excellent nature photographer.

One of his best traits was his sense of humor. He could make anyone laugh — friends, family, even a cop at a busy intersection who did a double-take when this 6’2” kid in a Tigger suit on a motorcycle pulled up in front of him.

Patrick, an only child, is survived by his mother, Jan.

Faulkner Fund Scholarships for Brass

The scholarships are named for the late Maurice Faulkner, a legendary brass professor, longtime faculty member, and an inspiration to many students over the years. 

Maurice joined the recently established Department of Music at Santa Barbara State College in 1940, then on the Riviera Campus.  He was involved in the transition of a department from one primarily devoted to teacher training to a partnership of advanced scholarship and performance. At the same time, he was among a group of Santa Barbara State faculty who lobbied for our eventual inclusion in the University of California system. He served as chairman of the department in the early fifties and was an active member of the music faculty until his retirement from the University in 1979.  

On campus, he conducted the University orchestra as well as the UCSB Brass Choir, which achieved a considerable following throughout the state.  Maurice also founded and directed the All-California High School Symphony Orchestra. Over the years, hundreds of talented high school instrumentalists participated in an intensive three-day rehearsal and a concert to an overflow crowd.

His main instrument was the trumpet, which stimulated his research interests in the study of early brass instruments and in studies of performance stress with the Institute of Environmental Stress at UC Santa Barbara.

(Text taken from an article by Carl Zytowski)

John Schmidhauser Scholarships and Fellowships for Horn

Dr. John Schmidhauser was a distinguished political scientist and former member of the House of Representatives in the U.S. Congress. He also served in the Pacific Theatre in World War II. He passed away peacefully on February 21, 2018, at age 96. 

Dr. Schmidhauser chaired the Department of Political Science at the University of Southern California, and held academic positions at the University of Iowa, Simon Fraser University, and the University of Virginia. USC described him as among the nation's leading scholars in the area of judicial politics, emphasizing public law and judicial behavior, public policy, American politics, plus comparative judicial politics and policies.

He authored or co-authored 10 well-regarded books and many articles. While at the University of Iowa, Dr. Schmidhauser archived his work on the backgrounds of Supreme Court justices, considered a milestone accomplishment.

While in retirement, he pursued his interest in French horn, dating from an earlier time in his life. Along with participation in various ensembles, he studied privately with Professor Steven Gross. His enthusiasm for the horn and distinguished academic career were the inspiration for the scholarship and fellowship fund.