Facilities and Technology
BCM&D Records: Boyer's record label featuring releases by the Temple University Symphony Orchestra, Temple University Jazz Band and Temple Wind Symphony. Visit CD Baby to browse, purchase or download releases.
The following list of buildings on Temple's main campus house Boyer's programs, classrooms and facilities. Click here for directions and parking information for on and off-campus performance venues.
Conwell Hall houses the Conwell Dance Theater, a fully equipped 175 seat “black box” theater. The stage floor is 40’ wide by 30’ deep with black and white reversible marley flooring over a wood floor. Stage masking includes four legs per side, a white scrim upstage with a black velour traveler curtain in front of it. There is a “dimmer-per-circuit” lighting system with 96 dimmers and an ETC Ion computer lighting console. House light plot with source-four instruments and a generous supply of additional instruments that can be added as “specials.” Audio system includes a Mackie CR-1604 electronic mixer, CD player, Yamaha Amplifier, 4 - Veris 16-96 Full Range two way speakers, a 100’ – 8x4 snake and an assortment of microphones, cables, and stands for live music.
Mitten Hall houses offices for Temple Opera Theater.
Presser Hall
- Smart classrooms, recital rooms, practice rooms, large ensemble rehearsal rooms
- Teaching studios, listening library, ensemble libraries, music education & music therapy libraries
- Piano lab, student lounge, loaner instruments (“Pet Shop”), AV and recording equipment
- Open 24 hours during fall and spring semesters for Boyer students and faculty
- Presser Listening Library with audio and video playback at 13 listening stations; 10,000 LP's; 5,000 CD's; 1,300 scores, 300 books, 500 digital recordings of Boyer ensemble performances.
- Presser Learning Center: library/laboratory with music education focus. Books, films, Cd's, recordings, perodicals.
- 110 pianos
- Computer Music Teaching Lab with 16 iMac student stations running ProTools, Digital Performer, Finale, Sibelius, iLife Suite and Adobe Creative Suite, Max/MSP Jitter, Final Cut Express and Logic Express.
Rock Hall
- 325-seat auditorium with 5.1 surround-sound Meyer speakers, 6500 lumens Panasonic video projection, Da-Lite motorized screen, fast ethernet, and in-house Yamaha and Denon equipment; matching DPA ultra-small form factor microphones and audio cabling
- Practice rooms, computer music labs, small ensemble rehearsal rooms, audition room, green room, harpsichord and harp dedicated rooms
- Home to the Keyboard Department, Instrumental Department, Composition Department, Early Music Ensemble, Alice Tully Chamber Music Library and the Presser Creative Music Technology Center
- Presser Creative Music Technology Center with 2 labs running Apple Power Macs with Digital Performer, Finale, Sibelius, iLife Suite and Adobe Creative Suite, Max/MSP Jitter. Lab 1 is a Computer Music Teaching Lab with 13 student stations. Lab 2 is a Visual Music Lab for multi-channel video projects with 5 student stations with 24-inch screens and Mackie studio monitors. Equipment includes a Digidesign 003 Factory interface with ProTools 9LE and Avid Complete TK2-e for 5.1 Surround mixing using JBL EON G2 monitors, or stereo mixing with Genelec 8030-A nearfield monitors. In addition to the standard lab software, computers are running ProTools 9LE, REAKTOR, Metasynth,and Final Cut Pro X.
Temple's Tech Center contains a music computer lab and recording booths.
Temple Performing Arts Center is where the TU Orchestra, TU Jazz Band and Concert Choir perform. Lew Klein auditorium: stage fits 100-person orchestra.
Choir seating accommodates 218 singers. Audience capacity: 1,200. Chapel of the Four Chaplains, in lower level, seats 100.
Tomlinson Theater is a 425-seat proscenium theater for Boyer’s opera productions and some large ensemble performances.
Tuttleman Learning Center houses the College’s largest classroom (room 107), a 63-seat room with surround sound, projection, and internet access.
