The Occidental-Caltech Symphony is a seventy-piece college-community orchestra, comprised of students from Occidental College, the California Institute of Technology, and players from their surrounding communities. We present four concerts during the year. Recent repertoire has included Mahler's First Symphony, Strauss' "Death and Transfiguration", most of the Beethoven symphonies, Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony, and newer works.

We feature an annual Student Concerto Competition, open to students at Oxy and Caltech.

Rehearsals are held once weekly, on Tuesday evenings. We have a very motivated group and work efficiently, to get maximum results from our rehearsals. Sectional rehearsals are led by members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Opera Orchestra.

The orchestra is directed by Prof. Allen Robert Gross.

For further information about the orchestra, please contact Prof. Gross at agross@oxy.edu or call (323) 259-2574.