{"id":9,"date":"2026-10-14T04:57:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T04:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jaredcheung.com\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2026-10-14T04:57:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T04:57:14","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.jaredcheung.com\/?page_id=9","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hi! My name is Jared Cheung.I am born in January, 2000 in Melbourne, Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>I begun studying piano and music at 3 1\/2 yrs old and music becomes my passion ever since. Cello is my main instrument; I started learning cello at 4 1\/2 years old.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My cello teacher is the late Georg Pedersen, long time Senior Lecturer at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Sydney University. My second instrument is piano and I was taught by&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfiorillopianist.net.au\/\">Professor Marcela Fiorillo<\/a>&nbsp;until I moved from Canberra to Sydney. I also learnt harp from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ref=&quot;http\/\/www.metronomeinc.com\/AG\/alicehome.htm\">Alice Giles<\/a>, an international acclaimed harpist, performer and educator.<br><br>I am currently playing a John Wu Master series cello, masterfully adjusted and set up by Michael McMahon at Violin Atelje.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi! My name is Jared Cheung.I am born in January, 2000 in Melbourne, Australia. I begun studying piano and music at 3 1\/2 yrs old and music becomes my passion<span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaredcheung.com\/?page_id=9\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About Me<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaredcheung.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaredcheung.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaredcheung.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaredcheung.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaredcheung.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaredcheung.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaredcheung.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaredcheung.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}