There are many ways for students to express themselves creatively at Caltech—just for fun or for academic credit.
- 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
- Men’s Glee Club
- Women’s Glee Club
- Chamber Singers
- Fluid Dynamics (mixed a cappella group)
- Out of Context (mixed a cappella group)
- voice instruction
For more information, please visit go the Caltech Music Program website.
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 The Rover; The Memorandum; 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.
From painting to drawing, ceramics and silk screening, Caltech has classes and facilities to meet the creative needs of our students. The Art Chateau provides space for