Kit Soden, Ph.D., is a composer, researcher, and music educator based in Montreal, QC, Canada.

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 currently has an FRQSC-sponsored postdoc fellowship at the Université de Montréal. He is working with the Canada Research Chair in Opera Creation where he is researching the role of orchestration in operatic music.

Kit 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.

As a composer, Kit is inspired by the interaction and relationship between timbre and expressivity in music, and particularly in the use of orchestration to enhance the dramaturgy of a composition.