Faculty

Elaine Douvas

oboe

Elaine Douvas, oboe, from Port Huron, Michigan, trained at the Interlochen Arts Academy and with John Mack at the Cleveland Institute of Music. She has been principal oboe of the Metropolitan Opera since 1977, and before that was principal oboe of the Atlanta Symphony under Robert Shaw. 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, her students hold important positions in more than a dozen major orchestras and university faculties. In the summers, Ms. Douvas is an artist faculty member of the Aspen Music Festival and School, and teaches three intensive, one-week “oboe camps” in Quebec; Interlochen, Michigan; and the Hidden Valley Music Seminars in Carmel, California. She 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. She also teaches at The Juilliard School (since 1982) and has served as Woodwind Department Chairman at Juilliard since 1997. For many years she has devoted her spare time to figure skating and earned her Gold Medal for Adult “Moves in the Field” in 2006.
Phone: 845-758-7196