Award-winning composer Joyce Beetuan Koh writes concert music, collaborates in dance and theatre, and creates sound installations, multimedia productions, and film music and sound design. Her music engages the intellect and elicits the senses. A fascination with architectural structures and scientific theories underpins her creative impulse.
Highlights of her works include "Tai" (orchestra), "Divergent Plates" (accordion concerto), "Isskimmer" (quintet), "Fingerprints" (chamber ensemble), "Were we here?" (theatre of music), "On the String" (multimedia), "Hearing Lines" (audio-visual), "Fire Monkey" (site-specific dance), "Sounding Body" (interactive dance-music), "Imagine Ocean "(dance film) and "Kohnomos" (sound installation - instrument). Her creative output is regularly featured at international festivals and concert series and presented at galleries and museums, notably at International Computer Music Conferences, World Stage Design, Biennale Musiques France, Sir Henry Wood Promenade UK, London Spitalfields Festival, Melbourne Arts Festival, Sydney InsideOut Festival, Singapore Arts Festival, Singapore Dan:s Festival, Soundislands Festival, BBC Radio Concert Series, SSO Chamber Music Series, Singapore National Gallery, and Singapore ArtScience Museum.
Versatile and collaborative, Joyce has a wealth of experience working with musicians, choreographers, theatre-makers, artists, writers, philosophers, filmmakers, and architects. They include Australia Song Company, BBC Symphony Orchestra, De Ereprijs Netherlands, Dingyi Chinese Music Group, Ensemble Reconsil Austria, Ensemble Contemporaine de Montréal, France Résonance Contemporaine, Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, Hungarian Radio Orchestra, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Singapore SETTS ensemble, Singapore Arts Fission Dance Company, Singapore Raw Moves, Singapore Weird Aftertaste Music Group and Stavanger Symphony Orchestra.
Joyce was awarded a PhD in Composition from the University of York, a B.Mus (Hons), and an M.Mus at King's College London and was selected for a Postgraduate Diploma in Music Computing at IRCAM, Paris. Her principal composition teachers are David Lumsdaine and Nicola LeFanu, and her conducting mentors are Diego Masson, Peter Eötvös, and Jorma Panula. Her publications include two piano works published by the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, UK.
She was a fellow at Tanglewood Music, Dartington Music Festival, and Royaumont Foundation. She was Composer-in-Residence at Singapore Theatre Works, École Nationale de Musique Montbéliard, France, and Herrenhaus Edenkoben, Germany. In 2023, the French Culture Institut Français awarded her a Laureate of the Institut Français - Cité Internationale des Arts Paris" residency program.