Complete information for Fall 2021 admissions, including auditions, will be posted on the Music Department website www.music.ucsb.edu.
SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
There are multiple scholarship and award opportunities for talented horn players who are accepted into the studio. Unless noted, a separate application is typically not required to be eligible for the following.
Bachelor of Music in Horn
- Faulkner and Rappleye Awards which may include amounts up to full tuition for California residents, with the equivalent amount applied to non-resident tuition.
- Excellence at Entrance Awards (requires separate application).
- Regents' Scholarships based primarily on academic merit and emphasis (requires separate application).
Master of Music in Horn Performance
- Departmental funding; minimum full tuition for both California residents and non-residents, fees and health insurance
- Graduate Assistantship; all of above, plus stipend
Doctor of Musical Arts in Horn
- Doctoral Horn Fellowships
- Centrally Administered Fellowships
- Music Department sources
DEGREE OPPORTUNITIES FOR HORNS
The Horn Studio at the University of California, Santa Barbara, a division of the Music Department in the College of Letters and Science, offers the following degrees.
- Bachelor of Music in Horn (BM)
- Bachelor of Arts in Music (BA)
- Master of Music in Horn Performance (MM)
- Doctor of Musical Arts in Horn (DMA)
AUDITION LISTS
UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES (BM and BA)
Play two contrasting etudes or solos and an orchestral excerpt of your choice.
MASTER OF MUSIC (MM)
Your choice of first movements from Mozart Concerti 2, 3, 4 -or- Strauss Concerti 1, 2
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Prominent solos from the following:
Beethoven, Symphony No. 3, 2nd horn, 3rd movement trio
Brahms, Symphony No. 1, 1st horn, 2nd movement
Shostakovich, Symphony No. 5, 1st horn, 1st movement low tutti passage
Strauss, Till Eulenspiegel, 1st horn opening
Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 5, second movement solo
DOCTOR OF MUSICAL ARTS (DMA)
Your choice of first movements from Strauss Concerto No. 2 (1943), Jacob Concerto, Glière Concerto Op. 91, and Schoeck Concerto Op. 65.
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Prominent solos from the following:
Beethoven, Symphony No. 3, Trio in third movement, 2nd horn
Beethoven, Symphony No. 6, third movement, 1st horn
Beethoven, Symphony No. 7, first movement, 1st and 2nd horns
Brahms, Symphony No. 1, second movement, 1st horn
Brahms, Symphony No. 3, third movement, 1st horn
Dvorak, Symphony No. 9 “New World”, first movement, 1st and 3rd horns
Mozart, Symphony No. 40, Trio in third movement, 1st and 2nd horns
Mendelssohn, Nocturne from Midsummer Night’s Dream, 1st horn
Shostakovich, Symphony No. 5, 1st horn, first movement low tutti passage
Strauss, Till Eulenspiegel, 1st and 3rd horn calls
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5, second movement solo
Wagner, Short Call from Götterdämmerung
Weber, Overture to Der Freischütz, 4th horn