{"id":2,"date":"2022-03-16T19:18:43","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T19:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltcello\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:31:01","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:31:01","slug":"melanie","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltcello\/meetthestudio\/melanie\/","title":{"rendered":"melanie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltcello\/meetthestudio\/melanie\/screen-shot-2023-10-09-at-11-42-41-am\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-142\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-142\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3431\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-10-09-at-11.42.41-AM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2023-10-09 at 11.42.41 AM\" width=\"725\" height=\"910\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3431\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-10-09-at-11.42.41-AM.png 725w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3431\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-10-09-at-11.42.41-AM-239x300.png 239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 725px) 100vw, 725px\" \/><\/a><strong>MELANIE CHEN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>is a Music Performance major with a double major in Human &amp; Organizational Development. Born and raised in a suburb outside Boston, MA, she embraces the opportunity to attend college in Nashville where she is able to wear her cowgirl boots unironically! Prior to coming to Blair, she studied for thirteen years with Andrew Mark, Professor of Cello at the Boston Conservatory, and was a cellist in the Boston Youth Symphony and Benjamin Zander\u2019s Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra. Melanie\u2019s love for chamber music emerged from her five summers at Greenwood Music Camp, and grew after summers spent at the Aspen Music Festival and Sarasota Music Festival. As a soloist, she is grateful for the opportunities to perform around the country &#8211; in 2022 to 2023, she was a winner of Vanderbilt\u2019s Concerto Competition, the 3rd place winner of MTNA\u2019s Young Artist Competition, and a semifinalist in the Stulberg International String Competition. When Melanie is not playing her cello, she enthusiastically supports the Vanderbilt football and basketball teams as a flyer on the cheerleading team. Go Dores!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MELANIE CHEN is a Music Performance major with a double major in Human &amp; Organizational Development. Born and raised in a suburb outside Boston, MA, she embraces the opportunity to attend college in Nashville where she is able to wear her cowgirl boots unironically! Prior to coming to Blair, she studied for thirteen years with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"parent":5,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltcello\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltcello\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltcello\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltcello\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltcello\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltcello\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltcello\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/143"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltcello\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltcello\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltcello\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}