Oboist Barbara LaFitte is a familiar face on the Boston music scene. She is the principal oboist in the Boston Ballet Orchestra and plays English Horn in the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra. She is also a regular performer in Emmanuel Music’s Bach Cantata series where she has performed most of Bach's sacred works for oboe, and is a member of the cutting edge Boston Modern Orchestra Project. Ms. LaFitte’s major studies were with Louis Rosenblatt in Philadelphia. She received a fellowship to the Tanglewood Music Center, and participated in the Aspen and Spoleto Music Festivals. Locally, she has performed at the Rockport Chamber Music Festival, and has been a guest at the Bay Chamber Series in Maine, the Monadnock Music Festival in New Hampshire, the Andover Chamber Series, and is oboist in residence at Music at Eden’s Edge. Ms. LaFitte is a Professor on the faculty of Berklee College of Music in Boston, where she has developed an innovative oboe studio and coaches chamber ensembles. She also joined the music faculty of Wellesley College in September 2003, where she teaches oboe privately and coaches for the Wellesley Chamber Music Society.