[7] Post attended Yale College and graduated with a BA, summa cum laude, with distinction in Music.
He attended summer conducting programs at the Tanglewood Music Center, Salzburg Mozarteum, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival and Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute, and conducted in masterclasses with Leonard Bernstein, Erich Leinsdorf, and Simon Rattle.
[citation needed] In 1999 Post conducted members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in two concerts with singer James Taylor.
[10] In 2002 he was appointed music director of the San Juan Symphony, a regional orchestra serving the Four Corners area of Colorado and New Mexico.
[16][17] As a guest conductor Post has led the symphonies of Monterey County,[18] Columbus, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Houston, New Jersey, North Carolina, and Virginia in the United States, and the Barcelona Symphony and Catalonia National Orchestra (OBC), Helsinki Philharmonic, Jerusalem Symphony, London Mozart Players, Orchestre National de Lille, Orchestre National de Toulouse, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, and Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks in Europe.