A concert pianist, Ms Georgia has always had a yearning to share the joy and creative freedom that music offers to others through her performances, lectures, early childhood music classes, and private coaching.

After graduating Magna Cum Laude from U.C.L.A., Georgia earned two graduate degrees from the University of Southern California (Piano Performance and Collaborative Piano). She was chosen as a Fulbright Scholar to continue her studies in Vienna, Austria, where she performed, studied, and completed research articles for various professional music journals.  While studying in Vienna, she and her husband, Philip, who plays French horn, had the opportunity to perform together throughout Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, the Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Slovenia. Upon return to the states, Georgia served as an adjunct professor at St. Martin’s College and California State University.

Georgia assisted in developing the Early Childhood program as part of the Yamaha Music Corporation’s Research and Development Team in Irvine, California. Since then, she has had children of her own to teach, and has continued to teach others privately and through children’s ministries at church. Her dream has always been to create a creative arts school for children, and she is living her dream!

Esther Bonney has studied music since the age of 4 when she started piano. Soon thereafter, she began playing the violin with Sabine Eubanks of NCAC. Esther now studies with Angelia Cho of the National Symphony Orchestra. Esther performs as a soloist, chamber musician, Concertmaster of the Charles County Youth Orchestra, and member of the Maryland Classic Youth Orchestra. Esther has also been accepted into the National Symphony Orchestra Youth Fellowship Program at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C., for the 2023-2024 season. Esther has performed at dozens of public concerts and competed in state and national competitions. In April 2022, Esther's quartet was selected to perform at the finals of the 2022 Misbin Chamber Competition at the Levine School of Music in Washington D.C. Esther also won the Charles County Youth Orchestra’s 2021 Concerto Competition and was invited to solo with the Charles County Youth Orchestra at their 2022 Winter Concert. Esther has been featured in numerous newspapers across Maryland and has made an appearance a number of times on Charles County Arts Alliance's Friday Night Concert Series and CCYO's Secret Garden Concert Series. Esther has performed for a number of world-class artists, including Paula Akbar, David Premo, Jody Gatwood, and Monte Belknap.

In addition to teaching and playing music, Esther enjoys reading, caring for her five goats, solving Rubik’s Cubes, swimming, and building websites, including those of NCAC and The Thinking Kid.

Hailed by the Washington Post as a musician with “…a clean, full-bodied tone and fleet fingers,” Dr. Krisztina Dér is a member of the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra and Lecturer of Music at Guilford College in North Carolina. First-prize winner of the 2017 RAFA Artist and the 2009 FSW Competitions, she has performed and studied internationally, earning her doctoral degree in flute performance from the University of North Carolina Greensboro with academic concentrations in music theory and history. Her growing flute/light project, featuring concerts that integrate music and light, has been invited to the 2018 National Flute Association Convention, 2018 Light City Baltimore, the University of Maryland Baltimore County, and Liberty University. 
 
Krisztina is also a pianist with years of classical training, often accompanying her students in community performances. As a pedagogue and ensemble director, she believes strongly in nurturing her students’ curiosity to excite them about learning.

Ms. Fran immigrated from the Philippines and grew up in Southern Maryland. She completed her Bachelor of Music in Music Education with an Instrumental Classical emphasis at Shenandoah Conservatory. She also graduated with a Psychology minor and a Performance Certificate. An experienced vocalist and a violist, Matundan is and always has been passionate about the power of music and education. Her ultimate goal is to help cultivate a love for music and for life in every student she works with! She especially enjoys Videogame Music and playing in the Washington Metro Gamer Symphony Orchestra. Some of her hobbies include singing in the CSM La Plata Chamber Choir, reading and spending time with family, friends and her tuxedo cat, Bella!

Ellen Blumhardt is delighted to be sharing music with young children at the Neighborhood Creative Arts Center. She holds an undergraduate degree in music education from the University of Maryland Baltimore County, where she studied clarinet and bass clarinet and was a recipient of the Linehan Artist Scholarship. After starting an elementary general music position in Charles County Public Schools, she completed her Master’s of Music in Music Education from Michigan State University. She completed her Level 1 certificate in Gordon’s Early Childhood Music Learning Theory as well as Level 1 in Elementary General Music Learning Theory. Ellen loves being a member of the La Plata community, where she lives with her husband, Andrew, and now stays at home with her three young children, Francis, Mary, and Thomas.

Ms. Miriam has been teaching piano since 2017. In addition to vocal and piano training, she has been involved 2008 and performed for eight years. Her time is also spent conducing Children's Voices of Southern Maryland, which she has been leading or volunteering with since 2018. ​

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Since graduating Summa Cum Laude from Southern Virginia University, Miriam started earning her MBA virtually from Texas Tech University—Rawls College of Business, and will graduate in May 2026. Returned to Maryland, she runs her own family photography business and professionally photographs weddings throughout the DMV and PA area. 

Mr. Philip has performed with his horn throughout the world, as a soloist, orchestral player and recording artist. He was trained by the great masters of horn while earning his Bachelors of Music at Indiana University, his Masters of Music at the University of Southern California, and his advanced studies at the Conservatory of Music in Vienna, Austria. He has concertized throughout Austria, China, Great Britain, Czech Republic, Ukraine, Serbia and Croatia and performed with numerous large ensembles including the Utah Symphony, the Tacoma Symphony, and the Vienna Hochschule Orchestra. Philip’s soundtrack recordings include “Cool Runnings” and “The Nightmare before Christmas”.