Emma Soldaat

Biography

Emma Soldaat is Lecturer in Music Theory at the Fountain School of Performing Arts at Dalhousie University, and a PhD candidate in music theory at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Steven Vande Moortele. Her research, supported by a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship, examines form in Mahler’s symphonies by combining form-functional theory with the philosophies of memory of Henri Bergson and Marcel Proust. She has presented her work at the Society for Music Analysis, Society for Music Theory, Music Theory Midwest, MUSCAN, and Royal Musical Association annual meetings, as well as at graduate conferences across Canada. Emma is also active within the UofT graduate community, serving on the Music Graduate Student’s Association as Writing Group Coordinator (2020-Present), President (2019-2021), and Secretary (2018-2019). She has also chaired the University of Toronto Graduate Music Conference (2019-2020), and acted as Graduate Roundtable Coordinator (2018-2019). She lives with her fiancé Benjamin and their black cat Ziggy.