Elaine Douvas has been principal oboist of the Metropolitan Opera since 1977 and performed the Strauss Oboe Concerto on the MET’s Carnegie Hall series in 2004. Her three CDs include a solo recital, her quartet project, Pleasure is the Law, issued by Boston Records and Oboe Divas, issued by Oboe Classics.
One of the most influential teachers in the USA, Ms. Douvas has served as Oboe Instructor at The Juilliard and Mannes Schools since 1982 and as Woodwind Department Chairman at Juilliard since 1997. Her students hold positions in twenty important orchestras and university faculties. In the summers she is an artist faculty member of the Aspen Music Festival and School. Douvas has given master classes at the Curtis and Cleveland Institutes of Music, the Manhattan and Eastman Schools of Music, the New World Symphony and the Conservatories of Beijing and Shanghai. Her three albums of demonstration and written commentary for Music Minus One are used by teachers and students across the country. A native of Port Huron, Michigan, she trained at the Cleveland Institute of Music with John Mack and at Interlochen Arts Academy.
