Award-winning composer from Singapore, Joyce Beetuan Koh, writes concert music, works in dance collaborations, composes for films, 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.

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 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.

Highlights of two large-scale works include Kohnomos, a sound installation cum 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 art benches situated along an art trail called ‘Benchmarks’ by the Singapore River, embraces the sitter for mindful contemplation.

In 2023, she was Laureate of the ‘Institut français, Cité internationale des arts Paris’ residency program awarded by the French Culture Institut Français. She is Associate Dean of the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Research Division at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, University of Arts Singapore.