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 an artist with this skills-focused dance degree. You’ll train i...
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....
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)
This course will provide you with the practical knowledge and skills needed to succeed in the exciti...
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
Explore our performance facilities
As an AMATA student, you'll be sharing performance facilities with the likes of Shobana Jeyasingh Dance, Forced Entertainment, James Wilton Dance, Neil Halstead, Rei Nakamura and Graham Fitkin.
Our amazing facilities comprise 11 performance and rehearsal spaces, flexible theatre space, 650 square metres of sprung dance floors, live rooms, control rooms, and digital and analogue equipment.
Discover stories from our community
Third year acting student is nominated for this year’s prestigious Spotlight Prize
13 May 2025
Chosen from a pool of hundreds of graduating drama students across the UK and Ireland, third year Ac...
Falmouth’s Dragons’ Den: where students compete for a share of £6000
17 April 2025
The annual Dragons’ Den competition is an exciting event in the Falmouth University calendar. Held...
A day in the life of a Theatre & Performance student
16 April 2025
Student, Kat shows us a day in the studio where she's rehearsing for her final assessment.
Graduate Ruairi Wakefield on touring with his musical heroes
12 March 2025
From lecture halls to international tour venues, Ruairi Wakefield went from applying to the Technica...
What is it like studying in the Academy of Music and Theatre Arts?
09 December 2024
In this blog, I aim to paint a picture of what life in AMATA (The Academy of Music and Theatre Arts)...
Acting graduate stars in new Edinburgh Fringe show
14 August 2024
Acting BA graduate Piers MacKenzie began his run portraying Daniel Radcliffe in Joshua Kaplan’s TE...
Credit: Sequoia Ziff
Popular Music graduate Lily Lyons signs to major label Fiction Records
27 June 2024
2024 has been quite the year for singer songwriter Lily Lyons, a 2018 graduate from Falmouth’s Pop...
Graduate Spotlight: A journey from Falmouth University to a BAFTA Award
05 June 2024
Catherine Hiller graduated from Falmouth University with a BA in Music in 2018, and her career has s...
How collaboration fuels creativity for our Dance community
10 April 2024
The regular 'Body &' events, run by the Dance & Choreography BA course team, offer students studying...
Creative Music Technology graduate joins one of Australia's leading media companies
27 March 2024
Elliot Orban has recently joined Southern Cross Austereo (SCA) as their Assistant Network Operation ...
Lecturer's show shortlisted for Cornwall Heritage Awards 2024
21 December 2023
'Re:voice', a show directed by senior lecturer Agnieszka Blonska, has been shortlisted for the Corn...
Why I chose to study Acting BA(Hons) at Falmouth
18 December 2023
Acting student Rebecca talks about why she chose to study acting and why Falmouth was the right Univ...
A Child of Science: Falmouth Lecturer’s new play tells the brilliant story of the creation of IVF
13 November 2023
Bruntwood Prize-winning writer Gareth Farr’s new play A Child of Science tells the story of Patric...
Photo credit: Steve Tanner
'Help! I Think I'm a Nationalist': Show directed by Falmouth lecturer scores 5-star reviews
03 October 2023
A critically acclaimed show directed by senior lecturer Agnieszka Blonska and written and performed ...
Image by: Steve Tanner
‘Come Out Fighting’: Falmouth graduates star in new play from What Now Productions
29 September 2023
Acting BA(Hons) graduates star in new play exploring suppressed sexuality and homophobia within the ...
In conversation with aspiring stand-up comedian Hayley Ashton
22 June 2023
Third-year Acting student reflects on their time at Falmouth University.
Harnessing technology to make live events more inclusive
05 June 2023
In May 2023, the Live Audience Accessibility & Augmentation knowledge exchange project hosted a seri...
Falmouth Showcase 2023: A celebration of our graduating talent
02 June 2023
Congratulations to our class of 2023!
Biscuits for Breakfast: Lecturer's new play makes an impact beyond the stage
09 May 2023
While writing his new play, Acting lecturer Gareth Farr began a collaboration with a local chef and ...
Falmouth dancers join Sadler's Wells National Youth Dance company
28 April 2023
Two dancers from AMATA’s youth dance programme have joined the National Youth Dance Company.