Award-winning composer Joyce Beetuan Koh writes concert music, collaborates on dance projects, composes for film, and creates sound installations and multimedia productions. Her music engages the intellect and elicits the senses. Underpinning her creative impulse is a fascination with architectural structures and scientific theories. Nuanced by her Asian sensibilities, her language is abstract and self-contained. 

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Versatile and collaborative, Joyce has a wealth of experience working across acoustic and electronic media with musicians, choreographers, theatre-makers, artists, writers, philosophers, filmmakers, and architects. Her creative output is regularly featured at international festivals and concert series and presented at galleries and museums, notably at Singapore Arts Festival, Melbourne Arts Festival, Proms UK, BBC Radio Concert Series, Biennale Musiques France, 44th International Festival of Films on Art in Montréal, Tieranatomisches Theatre Berlin, BASE Milan, etc.

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Highlights of two large-scale works include Kohnomos, a sound installation-music instrument shaped like a sailing mast that beckons the player-musician to sail in the sea of dark matter sonically, and A Micropolyphonic Stage, a pair of benches situated along an art trail called 'Benchmarks' by the Singapore River, that embraces the sitter for mindful contemplation. 

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Joyce was awarded Ph.D. in Composition from the University of York, B.Mus (Hons), and M.Mus at King's College London and was selected for 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. 

 

In 2023, she was Laureate of the “Institut français / Cité Internationale des Arts Paris” residency program awarded by the French Culture Institut Français. She was composer-in-residence at École Nationale de Musique, Montbéliard, France, Herrenhaus Edenkoben, Germany and Theatre Works of Singapore. Fellowships include Foyle Foundation UK, Centre Acanthes France, Nadia Boulanger Foundation, France, Academia Musicale Chigiana Italy, Royaumont Foundation France, and Tanglewood USA. She is a laureate of the Institut Français, Cité Internationale des Arts Paris 2023 programme awarded by the French Culture Ministry.