Academy of Music & Theatre Arts
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. We’re also a working venue.
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, Kneehigh Theatre, 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 courses
AMATA virtual experience
Whether you want to see your name in lights or want to light the stage, Director of the Academy of Music & Theatre Arts, Terrie Fender, shows how studying at Falmouth University will launch your career as a professional performer, manager or technician.
Take the virtual experience"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
Performance facilities
As an AMATA student you'll be sharing performance facilities with the likes of Shobana Jeyasingh Dance, Forced Entertainment, Kneehigh theatre, Neil Halstead, Rei Nakamura and Graham Fitkin.