Soden, Kit
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Kit Soden
Kit Soden, Ph.D., is a composer, researcher, and music educator based in Montreal, QC, Canada. He completed his Ph.D. in composition at McGill University sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada's Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS Doctoral Scholarship. Kit has worked as a research assistant with the Analysis, Creation, and Teaching of Orchestration (ACTOR) project, in collaboration with the Music Perception and Cognition Lab at McGill University and the Fonds National Suisse funded e-orchestration project at Haute école de musique de Genève/Neuchâtel. Through his research work, he has collaborated on the development of new taxonomies of orchestration through examination of orchestration treatises, systematic analyses of scores, and perception-based research, in order to develop new pedagogical methods and materials. Kit is currently has an FRQSC-sponsored postdoc fellowship at the Université de Montréal, where he is researching the role of orchestration in operatic music.
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McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
