As a recipient of the Nadia Boulanger International Foundation Scholarship (France), Joyce Koh studied with Tristan Murail in 1996-97. The following year, she was selected for the course in Composition and Musical Computing at the Institute for the Research and Co-ordination in Acoustic and Music, IRCAM (Paris). In the same year, she was awarded the Young Artist Award 1998 by the Singapore National Arts Council.