Music Matters.
Laura Marchisotto Bogart, pianist, collaborative artist and director of Piano Partner Mclean, teaches in-studio in McLean, VA and virtually anywhere in the world and new students are always welcome. Musical and technical excellence form the heart of her teaching. Students acquire vital skills to play the piano throughout their lives in all of its glorious forms – solo, ensemble, chamber music, the collaborative arts.
STUDENT AWARDS
2026
VMTA Northern Districts Competition
2nd place: Louis Xie
Hon. Men.: Sophie Lee
Brooklyn Music Teachers Guild Final Round, piano 4 hands division
Final round: Louis Xie and Seren Shen
MSMTA Gottlieb Competition
1st place: Grace Guo
3rd place: Louis Xie
Hon. Men.: Wrenna Humphries-Do, Seren Shen
NVMTA Sonata Competition
Honors Concert: JJ McKie, Olivia Gao, Sophia Lee, Grace Gao
2nd round: Wrenna Humphries-Do, NicolasAronin, Hugo Aronin, Sophia Lee, Rachel Xiao, Sage Shen, Seren Shen, Louis Xie
WMTA Hartman Competition
2nd place: Grace Guo
3rd place: Louis Xie
Hon. Men.: Sophia Lee and Wrenna Humphries-Do
NVMTA Piano Achievement Competition
Hon. Men.: Louis Xie
MSMTA Piano Solo Competition
2nd place: Wrenna Humphries-Do
Hon. Men.: Caitlin Aronin, Grace Guo, Hugo Aronin
NVMTA Bach Baroque Competition
Honors Concert: Louis Xie, Grace Guo
NVMTA Piano Concerto Festival and Competition Grades 4-12
2nd place: Wrenna Humphries-Do
3rd place: Avery Elston
Hon. Men.: Rachel Zeilberger
NVMTA Piano Concerto Festival and Competition Grades K-3
3rd place: Grace Guo
MSMTA Piano Ensemble Competition
1st place: Louis Xie and Seren Shen, Wrenna Humphries-Do and Grace Guo, JJ and Hailee McKie
1st place tie: Audrey Wandow and Sophie Xu
2nd place: Rachel Xiao and Sophie Xu
NVMTA Robert Spencer Piano Concerto Competition
Hon. Men.: Louis Xie
WMTA Modern Piano Music Competition
2nd place: Seren Shen
3rd place: Grace Guo
HM: Sophia Lee
2025
NVMTA Northern Districts Competition
HM: Seren Shen
NVMTA Achievement Awards: Piano
HM: Louis Xie
WMTA Hartman Competition
2nd place: Louis Xie
3rd place: Seren Shen and Hanke Kang
NVMTA Bach Baroque Competition
Honors Concert: Seren Shen, Hanke Kang
2nd Round: Rachel Xiao
WMTA Modern Piano Music Competition
1st place: Louis Xie and Hanke Kang
NVMTA Piano Concerto Competition
2nd place: Louis Xie
3rd place: Sophie Xu
NVMTA Sonata Competition
Honors Concert: Enhle Vumendlini, Grace Guo, Hanke Kang
2nd Round: Addie Yang, Rachel Xiao, Seren Shen, JJ MCKie, Wrenna Humphries, Louis Xie, Caitlin Aronin, Sophia Lee, Ling Shen
MSMTA Piano Solo Competition
1st place: Louis Xie, Grace Guo and Hanke Kang
2nd place: Rachel Xiao
3rd place: Seren Shen and Sophia Lee
HM: Hugo Aronin
MSMTA Piano Ensemble Competition
1st place: Seren Shen and Louis Xie/Sophie Xu and Rachel Xiao/Audrey Wandow and Sophie Xu
2nd place: Wrenna Humphries-Do and Hanke Kang/Nicolas and Caitlin Aronin
MSMTA Chamber Music Competition
HM: Caitlin Aronin and Sophia Lee
Great Composers Competition: Bach Repertoire
2nd place: Hanke Kang and Seren Shen
3rd place: JJ McKie
2024
VMTA Northern Districts Competition
3rd place: Seren Shen
MSMTA /Chamber Music Competition
HM: Caitlin Aronin & Sophia Lee, Sophie Xu & Rachel Xiao
NVMTA Sonata Competition
Honors Concert: Caitlin Aronin, Sophia Lee, Louis Xie
2nd round: Avery Elston, Seren Shen, JJ McKie, Wrenna Humphries-Do, Hanke Kang, Rachel Xiao
MSMTA Piano Solo Competition
2nd: Louis Xie, Seren Shen
3rd: Sophia Lee, Rachel Xiao
NVMTA Piano Ensemble Competition
1st: Louis Xie & Seren Shen, Sophia Lee & Rachel Xiao, Audrey Wandow & Sophie Xu
3rd: Sophia Lee & Caitlin Aronin
NVMTA Composition Competition
Frances Hollans Award: Nicolas Aronin
NVMTA Bach Baroque Competition
Honors Concert: Louis Xie
2nd round: Hanke Kang
NVMTA Piano Concerto Festival and Competition Grades 4-12
HM: Sophia Lee
NVMTA Piano Concerto Festival and Competition Grades K-3
1st place: Seren Shen
HM: Nina Allard, Louis Xie, Hanke Kang
WMTA Modern Piano Music Competition
1st: Seren Shen, Sophia Lee
2nd Hanke Kang, Louis Xie
3rd: Audrey Wandow
Meet Laura
Over the course of my career I have been privileged to work with leading singers, instrumentalists and teachers. Teaching young musicians passes on those wonderful musical traditions and inspires a new generation of pianists.
Playing piano duets with my mother is my fondest early memory of playing the piano. I studied piano for many years and played for chorus, singers, shows and instrumentalists. In conservatory I realized that collaborative music was my real love and studying piano the gateway to it. I was hooked and never looked back.
Experience
Professor of Piano and Assistant Conductor to the University Singers The George Washington University
Music Staff The Washington National Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, Opera Theater of Northern Virginia and other companies
The Franz Schubert Institute of German Art Song Full scholarship, performance on Austrian national radio
Northwestern University, MA in Piano Performance, full scholarship, Teaching Assistant to the Director of Opera and lecturer, French and Italian Diction
