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, 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

AMATA virtual experience

Whether you want to see your name in lights or want to light the stage, she 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

Upcoming events at AMATA

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.

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Actor in long black dress, body on the stage floor behind her and 3 drummers at the back of the stage.
Two dancers doing hand stands and bending at hips so legs are at a right angle mirroring each other.
AMATA building with external staircases lit up in blue and purple.
Falmouth University music students on stage singing and playing keyboard.
An actor in a yellow dress performing on a stage with red curtains
A male and female acting student bent down on a stage with a blue sofa
A male dancer lifting a female dancer high in the air on grass with the sea and sky in the background
Exterior of the AMATA building on Penryn Campus
A girl getting her hair styled by another girl in a dressing room with a mirror
A male student singing into a microphone while seated and playing the piano
A student behind a sound desk with a view of a band performing
Students in a stage fighting workshop in AMATA studio
A group of acting students in a huddle with a male actor standing above them
A group of Falmouth Acting students wearing black clothing and holding sticks