Joyce Beetuan Koh

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Joyce Beetuan Koh (born June 9, 1968) is a Singaporean composer, sound artist, and educator.

Career[]

Koh studied composition at King's College London under the tutorship of David Lumsdaine, and at University of York with Nicola Lefanu, receiving a PhD in Composition in 1997. She received the Nadia Boulanger scholarship and studied in Paris with Brian Ferneyhough at Royaumont in 1995, Tristan Murail in 1996, and at IRCAM Cursus in Music Computing 1997-98 with Hans Tutschku and .^[1] Koh was a composer-in-residence at the in 2004. In 2007, Koh become a founding faculty member of the music department of , and then became Vice-Dean (interdisciplinary studies) at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in 2010. Koh is a founding member of the Composers' Society of Singapore and served as its President 2013-16.^[2]

Honours[]

• Koh received the Young Artist Award from the National Arts Council, Singapore, in the category for music, for her orchestra works TAI, commissioned by Singapore Symphony Orchestra.^[3]

Creative work[]

Collaborations[]

Koh’s music has been performed by BBC Symphony Orchestra, Hungarian Radio Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Résonance Contemporaine, The Song Company of Australia, Nieuw Ensemble, Take 5, and Reconsil, as well as by soloists including , Frode Haltli, and Thalia Myers. Her compositions for dance include a series of works with The Arts Fission Company, for example ‘In the Name of Red’ (2015), a site-specific work for the inauguration festival of the National Gallery Singapore. Leaning on her concept of multimedia performance as a "theatre of music", Koh created Away We Go (2015) together with , commissioned by ), and On the String (2010), commissioned by Singapore Arts Festival). She co-created the interactive sound installation The Canopy (2010–13), presented at (UK 2013) and International Computer Music Conference (UK 2011). Koh collaborated with theatre director Steve Dixon on adapting T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land in a one-actor piece with video and electroacoustic sound.^[4]

Selected compositions[]

Orchestra[]

• TAI (1997)
• Granite Harbour (1995)

Chamber music[]

• Fingerprints for octet (2015)
• Piano Peals (2006)
• Edenkobener Beethoven Bagatellen (2005)
• les pierres magenta for piano and ensemble (2002)
• la pierre magenta for piano (2001)

Works for stage and dance[]

• In the name of red (2015)
• The Waste Land (2013)
• Locust Wrath (2013)
• On the String (2010)
• 16 Wege das Nein zu vermeiden (2005)

Multimedia[]

• Shape of a City (2015)
• Hearing Lines (2013)

Discography[]

• Edenkobener Beethoven Bagatellen (2005, with )
• Piano Peals (2004, with ABRSM)

References[]

External links[]

• Official website