Aidan McGartland from Melbourne is undertaking a PhD in Music Theory at McGill University, Montréal. He holds a First-Class Honours degree in Musicology and Classical Voice, together with a Diploma in Languages, from the University of Melbourne, and a Master of Studies in Musicology from the University of Oxford. In addition to studying music theory, Aidan is an active classical singer, enjoying a wide range of repertoire from Franz Schubert to Benjamin Britten. With his World Universities Ramsay Postgraduate Scholarship, Aidan will continue his PhD at McGill University focussing on the works of Elisabeth Lutyens, Margaret Sutherland, and Igor Stravinsky. Through the close examination of compositional processes, employing both archival research and music analysis, the dialectic between tradition and modernity in twentieth-century musical modernism will be explored. Aidan aspires to become a professor of music, with a view to increasing cultural literacy and advocating for universal access to music education.