Lillian is currently enrolled in the Master of Music in Music Theory program at Michigan State University. She grew up in the Greater Toronto Area and obtained her Bachelor of Music in Jazz Vocal Performance from the University of Windsor in 2020. While in school, she taught piano and voice lessons and worked as an audio engineering assistant in local recording studios. Her research interests include recording arts and the intersection between pedagogy and industry, music cognition, the implications of timbre and texture on musical narrative, and the impact of language on the understanding of musical materials.