Tara Helen O’Connor is an Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient, a two-time Grammy Award nominee, and, as a member of the New Millennium Ensemble, a recipient of the Walter W. Naumburg Chamber Music Award. A Wm.S. Haynes artist, she was the first flutist selected to participate in the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Bowers Program. She is currently an Artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and a member of the Windscape woodwind quintet. O’Connor serves as Visiting Associate Professor, Adjunct, of Flute at the Yale School of Music, and is Artistic Director of the Music from Angel Fire Festival. She also serves on the faculty at Bard College Conservatory of Music and the Contemporary Performance Program at Manhattan School of Music.