A native of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Elisabeth La Foret has been on the faculty of the Settlement Music School and the Doylestown School of Music and Arts. She graduated with a master’s degree in flute performance in 2006 from Carnegie Mellon University, where also she finished her undergraduate degree. While there, she completed a minor in architecture history, was a fencing TA, built a small robot, was the CMU flute studio webmaster, worked as a graduate student assistant to Jeanne Baxtresser and in the university library, maintained a 4.0, and hardly ever slept. She has also been a recipient of the Presser Foundation Scholarship and the Harry G. Archer award. La Foret has been one of four semi-finalists in the President’s Own Marine Band 2006 flute audition, and a finalist in the principal flute auditions for the Charlotte and Akron Symphony Orchestras. A substitute with the New World Symphony, she attended the National Repertory Orchestra last summer. She has also participated in the Aspen Music Festival, the Music Academy of the West, and the Brevard Music Center, playing under conductors such as John Williams, Peter Oundjian, Sir Andrew Davis, Roberto Abbado, David Zinman, Stefan Sanderling, and Jeffrey Tate. Solo experiences include performances with the Carnegie Mellon University Wind Ensemble, the George Mason University Wind Ensemble as the winner of the Judy Lapple Flute Competition, and the Philadelphia Biblical University Orchestra as the winner of the Young Artists Competition. La Foret was a student of Jeanne Baxtresser and Alberto Almarza at Carnegie Mellon, and prior to that, she studied with Adeline Tomasone and Jeffrey Khaner. She joined the Air Force this past July. La Foret will continue to play the flute, teach, and participate in community outreach through music wherever she goes, but has felt the call of the Air Force for too long to ignore it any longer.