Performing Arts
There are many ways for students to express themselves creatively at Caltech—just for fun or for academic credit.
Instrumental music
- Caltech-Occidental Symphony Orchestra
- Caltech-Occidental Chamber Orchestra
- Caltech-Occidental Concert Band
- 2 jazz bands
- over 20 chamber music ensembles
- guitar (individual and class instruction)
- individual piano lessons
Choral music
- Men’s Glee Club
- Women’s Glee Club
- Chamber Singers
- Ecphonema (men’s a cappella group)
- Out of Context (mixed a cappella group)
- voice instruction
For more information, please visit go the Caltech Music Program website.
Theater
Theater is alive and well at Caltech, thanks to TACIT (Theater Arts at the California Institute of Technology). A group of thespians drawn from student, staff, and even faculty ranks, presents three shows every academic year.
Recent productions have included Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and Othello; Marivaux’s Double Infidelity; Chekhov’s The Notebook of Trigorin; Ibsen's Hedda Gabler; and Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author.