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Ursula Kwong-Brown 2014

Ursula Kwong-Brown (b. 1987) is a composer of instrumental and electronic music for the concert hall and the stage. Her work has been performed in diverse venues such as Carnegie Hall, le Poisson Rouge and the Manhattan Movement & Arts Center in NYC, St Paul’s Chapel and Miller’s Theatre at Columbia University, and the National Portrait Gallery and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Ursula attended the Royal College of Music in London and Columbia University in New York where she received the Sudler Arts Prize and graduated with honors with a B.A. in music and biology. Her main composition teachers have been Tristan Murail, Justin Dello Joio, Edmund Campion, Ken Ueno and Myra Melford. She is currently pursuing doctoral studies in composition at Berkeley University in California with support from a Mellon-Berkeley Fellowship.

Ursula Kwong-Brown Official Website

I will be editing on diverse topics as a mentor for high school students engaged in Women of Wikipedia (WoW!), a UC Berkeley initiative dedicated to closing the gender gap by encouraging young women to contribute to Wikipedia.