Elaine Douvas has been principal oboe of the Metropolitan Opera since 1977. Her career highlights include the Strauss Oboe Concerto at Carnegie Hall with James Levine in 2004 and Dutilleux’s Les Citations with the MET Chamber Ensemble and here at Aspen in 2006. She has issued two new CDs this year, Oboe Divas and Pleasure is the Law.  Ms. Douvas has served as oboe instructor at The Juilliard School since 1982 and was appointed chairman of the woodwind department in 1997.  She teaches three intensive one-week oboe camps at the Interlochen Center for the Arts, Le Domaine Forget Academie in Quebec, and the Hidden Valley Music Seminars in Carmel, California.  Her students hold positions in more than a dozen major orchestras and university faculties, and her three albums of demonstration and written commentary for Music Minus One are used by teachers and students throughout the country. Douvas trained at the Cleveland Institute of Music under John Mack and at the Interlochen Arts Academy. Her first job was principal oboe of the Atlanta Symphony under Robert Shaw. For many years, she has devoted her spare time to figure skating, earning her Gold Medal for Adult Moves in the Field in 2006.