Andrea Rushton

Andrea Rushton is a lecturer in Music focusing particularly on voice studies and performance.  Her work has evolved through a diverse portfolio career, which spans a breadth of experience that richly informs her current roles.  Beginning as a gigging and recording musician performing as a solo singer/musician/songwriter and with various rock, pop and electronic bands; as a session singer and fronting her own projects she developed skills in improvisation, (through extended sessions as part of her creative process, as well as in live performances), composition, songwriting and production.

She has given classical and contemporary performances as flautist, clarinetist and vocalist; is a choir director, workshop leader, lecturer and teacher of instrumental and vocal techniques. From the early 1980's to the present she has maintained a fascination for working creatively with sound technologies, making these an integral part of her work. She holds an MA in Contemporary Music and a PGCHE. Alongside her creative work she had her own private music tuition business teaching 40 students a week for more than a decade before moving into teaching in Higher Education in 2007.  She began lecturing at Falmouth University in 2010 when AMATA was first opened and from 2014-2016 held the role of course co-ordinator for Music Theatre at the same time she was lecturing in Music.  Now teaching exclusively on the music courses, she is always striving to infuse her students’ experience with a passion for musical exploration and growth.