Cellist from the Midwest Has Big Musical Dreams

Round Top Festival Institute’s summer music festival attracts some of the top orchestra music students from around the world, but not all of them want to make their name in orchestra. Ella Bondar, a 20-year-old cellist from Des Plaines, Illinois, has other plans. Bondar began playing piano at a young age and started learning the cello in middle school. “I wanted to play the violin, but my aunt…