Oboist Nora Post received her B.A. in Experimental Music Studies from the University of California, San Diego. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. from New York University, where she was awarded New York University's prestigious Walter Anderson Fellowship for doctoral research. A student of Heinz Holliger, Ray Still, and Michel Piguet, Ms. Post has premiered works by Xenakis, Hiller, Wuorinen, Foss, Feldman, Ferneyhough, Moran, Babbitt, Takemitsu and Cage. Post was chosen to be the first recipient of the American New Music Consortium Award, given in recognition of her contributions to contemporary American music. She has recorded for Erato (EMI), Orion, Arabesque, and CRI. The author of numerous books and over 200 published articles, her writings appear in journals including Interface—Journal of New Music Research, Perspectives of New Music, Musical America, The Double Reed, Galpin Society Journal, and the Darmstadter Beitrage zur Neuer Musik.