Academy of Music & Theatre Arts
AMATA (Academy of Music & Theatre Arts) is a destination for international theatrical performances, dance groups and music acts - where you can take a realistic approach to becoming a professional performer, manager or technician.
You’ll work with industry partners like Island Records, Yamaha, Solid State Logic and RouteNote, and hear from visiting lecturers like Emma Rice and Island Records’ Darcus Beese. Alongside this real-world experience, you’ll collaborate with gaming, animation and film students, taking your work into digital and virtual environments.
Our Performance, Music & Theatre courses
Acting BA(Hons)
Push boundaries to become a progressive actor in a highly creative and collaborative environment. Ba...
CertHE Music Courses
Take your first steps towards becoming a skilled creative music artist with one of our three CertHE ...
Creative Music Technology BA(Hons)
Develop the creative and technical abilities needed to thrive in the music industry. Exploring compo...
Dance & Choreography BA(Hons)
Launch your career as a dancer and celebrate your unique potential as an artist with this skills-foc...
Music BA(Hons)
Prepare for a career as a professional musician with this industry-focused music degree. Based withi...
Music Business BA(Hons)
Get ready to shape the music business by mastering the skills needed to manage, create and innovate....
Music Business MA
Ready to shape the future of the music industry? From marketing and publishing to project management...
Musical Theatre BA(Hons)
Combining training in acting, singing and dance, this practice-led degree will empower you for a car...
Popular Music BA(Hons)
Whether it’s underground or mainstream, DIY or commercial, acoustic or electric, this course is fo...
Sound Design BA(Hons)
Explore the boundaries of sound and its potential to transport an audience in different contexts, fr...
Technical Theatre Arts BA(Hons)
Begin your career in the technical theatre arts and get valuable, hands-on experience of the perform...
Theatre & Performance BA(Hons)
Embrace a world of opportunity to become an original and distinctive theatre maker and performer. As...
"I had a brilliant couple of days with the music students at Falmouth. There are some great young musicians making bold, innovative and exciting music, and some cool tutors and lecturers encouraging and challenging them."
Ed O'Brien (Radiohead)
Featured Artist Coalition Board Director & Co-Chair
Upcoming events at AMATA
Tue 20 Sep 2022
19:30 (Doors open 19:15)
Cleveland Watkiss: The Great Jamaican Songbook
AMATA
One of the greatest male jazz singers, Cleveland Watkiss, will be celebrating Jamaica’s long histo...
Wed 28 Sep 2022
19:30
Sam Nancarrow and Olly Hudson-Wood: Dark Villages (Work in Progress)
AMATA
Dark Villages captures life at the centre of the living and housing crisis. Prospects are bleak, yet...
Sat 08 Oct 2022
19:30
Lea Anderson: Shuffle
AMATA
Casting you, the audience, as voting club-goers, Shuffle invites you to join our dance floor democra...
Wed 12 Oct 2022
19:30
Luke Kempner: Macho Macho Man
AMATA
Macho Macho Man follows Luke’s previous show House of Faces, which sold out at the Edinburgh F...
Fri 14 Oct 2022
19:30
Seamus Carey: Help! I Think I'm A Nationalist
AMATA
He's watched a wave of gentrification sweep through his rural home town. There's nowhere to live, ye...
Sat 22 Oct 2022
19:30
Speak Up! Act Out! Rebel Boob
AMATA
Using interviews of women with a primary diagnosis as a starting point, this is a post verbatim mult...
Wed 26 Oct 2022
19:30
Prototype Theater: Dead Cats
AMATA
Dead Cats is part of Proto-type’s critically acclaimed Truth to Power Project – a socially engag...
Sat 29 Oct 2022
19:30
SAY - The Album
AMATA
Dancers Sarah Golding and Yukiko Masui celebrate the joy and innocence of making up dances to popula...
Wed 02 Nov 2022
20:30 (Doors open at 20:00)
The Comedy Network: Faye Tracey, Sam Williams and Tom Glover
AMATA
Come and unwind after a stressful week at one of our monthly Comedy Network comedy club shows. Gathe...
Fri 04 Nov 2022
19:30 (Doors at 19:15)
Sound of the Sirens: Damage Control Tour 'Stripped Acoustic'
AMATA
Sound of the Sirens are a singer-songwriting duo based in Exeter, Devon comprising of Abbe Martin & ...
Wed 09 Nov 2022
19:30
Ad Infinitum: Beautiful Evil Things
AMATA
Beautiful Evil Things is a new, high-energy, one woman show from Ad Infinitum combining physical sto...
Sat 12 Nov 2022
19:30
Emilyn Claid: Untitled
AMATA
milyn Claid, queer dance artist in her 7th decade, presents a new solo performance developed in coll...
Sat 19 Nov 2022
19:30 (19:15)
N’famady Kouyaté
AMATA
N’famady Kouyaté is a young energetic master musician from Guinea (Conakry), who relocated to Car...
Sat 28 Jan 2023
19:30
James Wilton Dance: The Four Seasons
AMATA
James Wilton Dance, one of Europe’s most in demand dance companies, presents The Four Seasons. Usi...
News
Lecturer to Chair new Cornwall Music Education Hub
09 June 2022
A consortium led by Community Interest Company (CIC) ASONE Perform has been granted funding of more ...
Student secures internship with legendary recording studio
07 June 2022
Second year Creative Music Technology BA(Hons) student Kalev Villem has secured an internship at leg...
“Nothing’s ever wasted.” Rising star Mog Jones discusses lessons learnt on creativity
30 May 2022
For someone who describes herself as “quite reserved and nervous”, Mog Jones is making some bold...
Interior Design students create concept designs for AMATA
18 May 2022
Two second-year Interior Design BA(Hons) students have teamed up to create concept designs for an ex...
From Falmouth to the West End
12 April 2022
Popular Music graduate Kelly has landed her dream role as a bassist for Six the Musical. In Augus...
Olivier Award win for Associate Lecturer Simon Harvey
11 April 2022
Pride & Prejudice* (*Sort Of), co-directed by Associate Lecturer Simon Harvey, has won Best ente...
Fresh From Falmouth: March Edition
30 March 2022
After a brief hiatus, Fresh From Falmouth returns with even more exciting stories from our wonderful...
Photo of Sink the Show event at Printworks
From frontman to backstage guru: Meet Technical Theatre Arts graduate Ned Siuipy
17 February 2022
From starring in a pop band in Lithuania to a backstage lighting role at London’s biggest ...
AMATA’s Live from Studio K sessions are back
15 February 2022
Live from Studio K kicks off its spring line-up with three-piece band Rayne, comprised of Popular Mu...
The Soundery: Graduates making big sounds for big brands
02 February 2022
Graduates Luke Brown and Liam Iliffe set up their audio composition agency The Soundery in 2017. Tod...
Graduate DJ speaks to BBC Radio 6 Music about the Bristol club scene
27 January 2022
Music alumni Daisy Moon is now a staple of the Bristol DJ scene. On 15 January, she spoke to Gilles ...
Enhancement Week gives AMATA students access to industry expertise
27 January 2022
Accent classes with a renowned coach, accredited unarmed combat sessions and intensive dance worksho...
Popular Music graduate takes The Guardian Playlist top spot
02 December 2021
BA Popular Music graduate Annie Hockey-Smith, who makes fascinating techno-infused tunes under the m...
Falmouth graduate joins Stink Films as music video executive producer
23 September 2021
BA(Hons) Popular Music graduate Dom Mckiernan has joined the independent production network Stink Fi...
AMATA hosts Cornish companies for The Edinburgh Fringe
28 July 2021
Falmouth's Academy of Music & Theatre Arts (AMATA) is delighted to announce the line-up for The ...
Students swap Italy for Falmouth to follow music career dreams
28 May 2021
Second-year Creative Music Technology students Giulia, Giosuè and Andrea – aka electro-pop group ...
AMATA to live stream performances at Edinburgh Festival Fringe
17 May 2021
In partnership with Pleasance Theatre Trust, Falmouth University’s live performance venue AMA...
Lecturer establishes historic Royal Musical Association study group
16 February 2021
Dr D Ferrett, Senior Lecturer in Popular Music, has become one of four academics to form the Popular...
Dance & Choreography graduate produces 2020 Rhythms
12 January 2021
Commissioned by East London Dance through their The Fi.ELD (Future Innovators. East London Dance) pr...
New album released by music lecturer Norah Lorway
18 December 2020
Award-winning Creative Music Technology lecturer Dr Norah Lorway has released her latest album Futur...
