The Department of Music sponsors nearly one hundred public concerts a year. Student performance groups include the UCD Symphony Orchestra, Chorus, Chamber Singers, Concert Band, Early Music Ensemble, and Electronic Music Studio. Faculty ensembles include the Contemporary Music Players, Wind Quintet, Baroque Ensemble, and Theatre of Voices. There are free weekly noon concerts by individual artists and ensembles that feature both professional musicians and students. A student wind quintet practices outside the music building in the arboretum near Putah Creek.
All students are welcome to audition for roles or participate backstage.
A recent student-directed production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot in Wyatt Pavilion Theatre. The Memorial Union Gallery presents historical and contemporary exhibits of works by both professional artists and students. The adjacent Richard L. Nelson Gallery organizes regularly changing exhibitions of historical and contemporary works. The TB9 Sculpture Garden, located outside the art department's ceramic sculpture facility, is a whimsical collection of some of the most noteworthy classwork done by former students.