Theresa Delaplain has taught oboe at the University of Arkansas since 1990, in addition to teaching music theory, coaching chamber music, and performing in the University's resident faculty ensemble, The Lyrique Quintette.  She is also manager of the Lyrique Quintette, and  
performs as oboist with the Boston Mountain Chamber Players and  
Spectrum Trio.   Dr. Delaplain is Music Director and founder of the 
annual Sequoyah Music Festival (formerly the Boston Mountain Woodwind and Horn Seminar), which is a one-week intensive summer chamber music festival.  Dr. Delaplain is the author of a reedmaking book for beginning and intermediate reedmakers entitled My Kingdom for a Reed!  She has also brought in many guest artists to the University of Arkansas, and has collaborated here with such artists as Alan Vogel, Richard Killmer, and Sara Bloom.  She has recorded an oboe CD, Time Labyrinths, featuring the chamber music of Robert Mueller.

As a performer, Dr. Delaplain performs and/or tours regularly as a solo recitalist and chamber musician.  She is on the Arkansas Arts Council's Arts on Tour roster as oboist with the Lyrique Quintette and Spectrum Chamber Trio.  The quintet has toured in the Pacific Northwest, in Germany, Thailand, Canada, and extensively throughout the south, giving formal concerts, school concerts, master classes, clinics, and workshops, and has produced a CD entitled Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue.  Dr. Delaplain is also Principal Oboist of the Fort Smith Symphony, and was principal oboist of the North Arkansas Symphony until 2006, when she began playing with the Tulsa Symphony.  She was Principal Oboist of the former Music Festival of Arkansas and Second Oboist of the Springfield
(OH) Symphony.  She has performed concertos with the Thai National Orchestra, the Fort Smith Symphony, the North Arkansas Symphony, and the University of Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra, and Wind Symphony.  Dr. Delaplain has appeared at six International Double Reed Society Conventions, and was a guest recitalist at the Southwest Contemporary Music Festival and Conference, in addition to performing at the College Music Society National and Regional Conventions.  She has commissioned and premiered several new works involving oboe, and has taught at the Interlochen Center for the Arts Summer Arts Camp and the University of Arkansas Summer Music Camp.

Since coming to the University of Arkansas, Dr. Delaplain has developed the oboe studio to one of the finest in the region, offering regular master classes, reedmaking classes, performance opportunities, and chamber music coaching. She has been active as a clinician and adjudicator, including appearances at the Mid-South Double Reed Society Convention, Valdosta State University Double Reed Day, East Carolina Oboe Day, and the Arkansas All-State Music Convention.

Dr. Delaplain's formal education included attending Macalester College for two years, where she studied with Rachel Brudnoy and Richard Killmer; earning a Bachelor of Music in Oboe Performance degree from the University of Michigan, where she studied with Arno Mariotti; earning a Master of Music in Oboe Performance from Bowling Green State University, where she studied with John Bentley; and earning a Doctor of Musical Arts in Oboe Performance from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati, where she studied with Sara Bloom and had master classes with Robert Bloom.