Honours
In 1971 Eileen Joyce was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Music from the University of Cambridge. She was extremely proud of this, and insisted on being referred to as "Doctor Joyce". In 1979 and 1982, she was awarded similar honours by the University of Western Australia and the University of Melbourne respectively. Her memorial headstone refers to her as "Doctor Eileen Joyce".
For her services to music, she was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the Queen's Birthday Honours of 1981. While happy to accept the award, she made no secret of her disappointment that she was not made a dame.
On 10 February 1989, a special Australian Broadcasting Corporation tribute concert to her was presented at the Sydney Town Hall. Stuart Challender conducted the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, with Bernadette Harvey-Balkus playing the first movement of the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2. Although now frail, Eileen Joyce flew to Australia to attend the concert, where she addressed the audience. The playwright Nick Enright interviewed her for the radio broadcast.
Her portrait was painted by Augustus John, John Bratby, Rajmund Kanelba and others. A bronze bust by Anna Mahler stands at the Eileen Joyce Studio at the University of Western Australia in Perth. She was also the subject of photographic portraits by Cecil Beaton, Angus McBean and Antony Armstrong-Jones.
The School of Music at the University of Western Australia, in Perth, named the main keyboard studio, which houses their collection of historical and notable keyboard instruments, the Eileen Joyce Studio.
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