Janet Sit is a Toronto-based multi-disciplinarian: composer, sound artist, researcher, music educator and an indefinite piano student. She holds a B.Sc. in Zoology and B. Music both from the University of Toronto, an Associate Diploma (ARCT) in piano performance from the Royal Conservatory of Music, a M.Music from University of Victoria and a current PhD student at the University of California San Diego Department of Music. Her works have premiered in multiple cities across N. America, Europe, and East Asia. Her inter-disciplinary research interests include sound installation practices, ocean biodiversity and conservation, ocean humanities, post-colonial studies, and contextualizing this knowledge through her lived experiences as a musician, a first-generation immigrant, an inhabitant of former colonies/unceded lands and territories, a Cancer patient. She is active in community-building and collaborating within the greater academic and general communities.

Janet has been commissioned by/written for: Caution Tape Sound Collective, Thin Edge New Music Collective, the Gray/Constant Duo, Dave Riedstra, The Art Song Collaborative Project, the AIR Contemporary Music Collective, Freesound Music, Grace Talaski, and Parker Ramsay. In Fall 2022, she premiered an orchestral prelude for the Toronto Symphony Orchestra as part of their centenary celebrations. Janet was selected for the 2023-2024 PIVOT program co-organized by the Canadian League of Composers and the Continuum Ensemble. Her electronic music practice was recently featured for the sound design team of Gravebirth, a multi-disciplinary project, for the UCSD IDEAS series. Her sound installation, Letters from the water/Cartas del Agua, was selected for the Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice (CRiSAP) In the Field 2 symposium.

She has been awarded for her research and community work including the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Masters’ Scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, UC San Diego Department of Music Teaching Assistant Excellence Award and The Carolyn Applebaum Endowment Prize. Janet has presented her research at the University of Pittsburgh Music Graduate Students’ Union conference Music, Space & Time in spring 2024.

Her latest community-building work includes a UC San Diego - International Rescue Committee Womens’ Resilience Center collaboration where she teaches music skills in El Cajon, California.