Matthew Kiple is an Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the University of Delaware. His research interests include transformational theory, fin-de-siècle French music, semiotics, and music theory pedagogy. He has presented research at numerous regional, national, and international conferences—New England Conference of Music Theorists, Music Theory Society of New York State, Society for Music Theory, Pedagogy Into Practice, and AEMC Conference on Music, Communication, and Performance—and his paper “Collection Space: Systematizing Parsimonious Transformations in French Scalar Tonality” received the Dorothy Payne Award for best graduate student paper at the Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic. Dr. Kiple is also an accomplished pianist and has performed in recitals as part of the International Keyboard Institute and Festival, New York Piano Festival and Competition, World Piano Conference, and Princeton Festival Piano Competition.​