<p><strong>Ursula Kwong-Brown</strong> 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, and Ken Ueno, and she has attended master classes with Kaija Saariaho, Brian Ferneyhough, Augusta Read Thomas, Bernard Rands, Yehudi Wyner, Nils Vigeland, David Ludwig, Eric Ewazen, Raphael Cendo and Luca Francesconi. She is currently pursuing doctoral studies in Composition at Berkeley (University of California) with support from a Mellon-Berkeley Fellowship.</p>

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<p><strong><em>Emerald Meditations</em></strong> was inspired by a recent trip to Thailand in which I visited the Emerald Buddha, a legendary statue in the Wat Phra Keow temple in Bangkok.</p>
