Biography

“Post’s elegant and eloquent music enters the listener’s consciousness with ease and leaves it with great difficulty,” wrote William Zigorski in Fanfare Magazine.

David Post was born in New York City and holds degrees from the University of Chicago, the New School for Social Research and Brandeis University.  He started musical training early, studying ‘cello with Samuel Reiner and Charles Forbes and composition with Charles Whittenberg and later with Ralph Shapey at the University of Chicago.  He undertook additional study with Larry Bell and Lukas Foss.

The recipient of several awards, including a Pulitzer Prize nomination for his Fourth String Quartet. His music has received wide exposure on WGBH radio in Boston, WNYC in New York and stations throughout the country.  His choral, orchestral and chamber works have been performed and recorded in the U.S. and Europe by the likes of the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Moravian Philharmonic, the Salem Philharmonic; soloists have included pianists Simone Dinnerstein, Jan Dusek, Beth Levin, Steven Beck, clarinetist Ludmilla Peterkova, The Hawthorne String Quartet, the Martinu Quartet, The Fennimore Quartet, ‘cellist Samuell Magill, the Boston Children’s Chorus, the bass clarinet/marimba duo Transient Canvas and several others.

He has received commissions from groups and organizations including the Terezin Music Foundation, the Fennimore Quartet, the Martinu and Hawthorne Quartets, the Aolis collective, and the New England Reed trio, among others.

He has recently served on the Composition faculty of the Alba Music Festival, Alba, Italy.

His music is recorded on the Bridge Records, MMC, Naxos, and Centaur labels.  His scores are published and distributed by Editions Bim, Switzerland, and Subito Music Corporation.