Hello and welcome to the official website of the Deborah White-Bondhus School of Music. Deborah is an established piano and music theory teacher with over 40 years experience in the Baltimore/Washington area. The studio is conveniently located in Columbia, Maryland in Howard County.
Welcome back for another exciting year of piano and music!!!! You will make new friends at theory and repertoire classes who play piano. Learning piano is difficult but rewarding. Piano lessons benefit from the support of family, a good quality, well-tuned instrument, and your commitment of time and energy to the project. You will learn how to read music, perform different genre of music,, and use your hands and body effectively. It is a wonderful adventure, and a life-long activity.
Winter recital 2017
APL Laurel
MSMTA Composer's Circle Winners 2017
College Park, MD
L-R Sumit, Dia, Ms Debbie, Caroline, Samantha
1st place Sunaya
and Isabeau
Catalina with Ms Debbie
Greater Laurel Piano Ensemble/Chamber Competition
2021
1st Place
Caitlin Liu Joshua Liu
Spanish Tornado - Walter and Carol Noona
2nd place
Advik and Aadya Rai
Valencia by Noona
Greater Laurel Music Teachers Association
Chamber Music Competition
Winners List
Group A:
First Place
Sumit (Piano) and Dia Nawathe (Violin)
Sonata op. 30 Mvt 1 and 2
L.v. Beethoven
Performed with distinction:
Ayushi and Aarohi Sarkar
Sophia, Nicholas and Anthony Cao
Seher and Safia Puthawala
CONGRATULATIONS !!!!!
SAMANTHA TURNER
GLMTA
1ST PLACE FRENCH SENIOR DIVISION
BEST IN FRENCH FOR ENTIRE COMPETITION
Congratulations to Mariana Lennon
2020 Graduate
Student of Dr Gowan Univ of MD Fall 2020
MSMTA Scholarship for music Majors 2020
Howard County Arts Council Scholarship
Place winners - congratulations
GLMTA 2021 Solo Competition
G1James Pang2ndG6Advik RaiHM2
G3Aadya Rai2nd G10Sumit Nawathe1st place
Caitlin LiuHM2
Congratulations to the following students who have all worked hard and played well
G3Joshua Liu Excellent
Ayushi SarkarVery Good
Ava Pham Excellent
Seher PuthawalaExcellent
AnnaBeth Tsai-TurtonExcellent
Raffaella GalatiVery good
Amanda ChinExcellent
Joshua Liu Excellent
Ayushi SarkarVery Good
Amanda GCMTA Superior rating Judged Recital
Lisa Bussing Memorial French Piano Competition 2021
First Place Second Place Third Place Honorable Mention Best French
Group 2 Joshua Liu
Group 3Caitlin Liu Caitlin Liu
Group 5Advik Rai Advik Rai
Group6
Group 7
Group 8Amanda Chin
Group 9 Sumit Nawathe
Congratulations to Raffaella Galati, Ava Pham, Seher Puthawala,
Lillian Robinson-Cheung, AnnaBeth Tsai-Turton who also particapted and played well.
Proud of all of you
GCMTA Solo Competition 2021
Congratulations to all of you who worked and played very well
This was a very competitive competition and I am proud of all of !!!!!
Ms Debbie
Seher Puthawala 3rd place Superior
James Pang 3rd place Superior
Sumit Nawathe Honorable Mention Superior +
Amanda ChinHonorable Mention Superior-
Lillian Robinson CheungSuperior-
Advik Rai Excellent +
Aadya Rai Excellent +
Ayushi SarkarExcellent +
Mia Lander Excellent +
Ava Pham Excellent
Raffaella Galati Excellent
AnnaBeth Tsai-Turton Excellent
Amanda Prokofiev Prelude op. 12 # 7
Congratulations to the following students
James Pang - 2nd place GLMTA Orchestra Concerto
Aadya Rai - 2nd place GLMTA Orchestra Concerto
Advik Rai GLMTA 1st place GLMTA Orchestra Concerto - performer with orchestra
James Pang - 1st place GLMTA Piano Concerto
James, Advik and Aadya - Selected MSMTA Composer's Circle
James Pang
