{"id":21,"date":"2023-09-06T17:32:03","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T17:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/musc300draft\/?page_id=21"},"modified":"2026-04-20T09:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T14:32:11","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/schambers\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-center\" style=\"grid-template-columns:33% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"771\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/schambers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34069\/2025\/12\/Steph-13-2-2-771x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-159 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/schambers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34069\/2025\/12\/Steph-13-2-2-771x1024.jpg 771w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/schambers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34069\/2025\/12\/Steph-13-2-2-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/schambers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34069\/2025\/12\/Steph-13-2-2-768x1019.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/schambers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34069\/2025\/12\/Steph-13-2-2-1157x1536.jpg 1157w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/schambers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34069\/2025\/12\/Steph-13-2-2-1543x2048.jpg 1543w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/schambers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34069\/2025\/12\/Steph-13-2-2-scaled.jpg 1929w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">  My name is Steph Chambers and I was raised in Norfolk, VA all my life. Growing up I attended public school for my entire K-12 education and it was there that I first started playing the violin in fifth grade. Having discovered a passion for both music and learning, I dedicated the years that followed to performing music and pursuing my BA in Music Education from Old Dominion University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> When I first started high school though I had the immense privilege of being a part of Strolling Silver Strings, a student led strings ensemble comprised of kids from all of the Norfolk Public Schools high schools, as well as a few who are home-schooled. Every year they travel around Hampton Roads and occasionally the Richmond area and perform an average of 40-60 gigs a year. It was there that I learned how to lead a larger ensemble as an instrumentalist and imbued in me the desire to pursue Music Education as a career in the classroom rather than simply a private studio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>  Currently, I\u2019m at Old Dominion University in the home stretch of my bachelor\u2019s degree and honing my musical skills as I enter Student Teaching. I hope to begin taking on private students of my own this coming summer and plan to maintain a small private studio even as a public educator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Steph Chambers and I was raised in Norfolk, VA all my life. Growing up I attended public school for my entire K-12 education and it was there that I first started playing the violin in fifth grade. Having discovered a passion for both music and learning, I dedicated the years that followed&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/schambers\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":27422,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/schambers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/schambers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/schambers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/schambers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27422"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/schambers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/schambers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/schambers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/schambers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}