Alfred (Fred) Tauber, the Founder of Avaloch Farm, is a retired professor of medicine and philosophy (http://blogs.bu.edu/ait/). His academic interests span immunology, philosophy of science, and medical ethics. As a Director of The Tauber Family Foundation, he allocated funding for both Avaloch’s construction and its on-going music program. Since the mid-1990s, Fred and his wife Paula Fredriksen have lived on Avaloch’s adjoining property, a farm that dates to the Revolutionary War and that served as a stop on the Underground Railroad in the 1850s.

Before his recent retirement, David Post was Professor of Law at Temple University Law School. Prior to that, he clerked for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the Supreme Court, practiced intellectual property and Internet law in Washington DC, and taught physical anthropology at Columbia University. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Kinhaven Music School, and plays guitar in the Washington-based duo “Bad Dog.”

Paula Fredriksen is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is Aurelio Professor of Scripture emerita at Boston University. In 2009, she became a member of the Department of Comparative Religions at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which awarded her an honorary doctorate in 2018. She has written extensively on the history of ancient Christianity, and on pagan-Jewish-Christian relations in the Roman Empire.

Patricia Matos-Puente is a physician and musician, having practiced primary care medicine as an internist for the past 36 years, and as an oboist for 48 years. Her medical experience has included 12 years of emergency medicine; internist in a hospital-based medical clinic in Beijing, China; physician in the health unit of the US Embassy in Tokyo, Japan; and for the last 18 years, practitioner in a solo geriatric house call practice. Pat’s medical life is kept in balance by her musical one, playing the oboe and English horn in many groups, concerts and workshops. She has participated in the Chamber Music Workshop of the Composers Conference for the last 12 years and also serves on its Board of Directors. Of particular significance, Pat also serves on the Board of the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service| Smithsonian Affiliations (SITES|Affiliations).

Hal Churchill, a retired hematologist, practiced at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital for over 50 years, leading its blood bank, mentoring generations of doctors-in-training, and caring for patients suffering diverse diseases. His musical background began as an adolescent clarinetist at Greenwood Music Camp, where he later served on its Board in various capacities, including its chairmanship.

Jonathan Price is the Lessing Professor of Ancient History in Tel Aviv University, where he has taught for more than 30 years and inter alia chaired the History and Classics Departments. He has published and lectured extensively on Greek and Roman history and literature. He lives in Jerusalem.

Mason Donovan is a global diversity and inclusion consultant and principal at The Dagoba Group, an integrated global Diversity and Inclusion consulting practice that helps leaders take tangible steps to enhance inclusion and optimize teams. Mason has over a decade of experience consulting clients in the areas of talent acquisition, performance management and leading inclusive teams, including working with over half of the Fortune 1000 companies on talent acquisition and management initiatives. He is the co-author of The Inclusion Dividend: Why Investing in Diversity and Inclusion Pays Off and SET for Inclusion: The Underlying Methodology for Achieving Your Inclusion Dividend and author of The Golden Apple: Re-defining Work-Life Balance for a Diverse Workforce. Appointed as an adjunct professor at UNH Law and member of community and non-profit boards, he also served as the interim Executive Director for Avaloch from 2020-2021.

Thomas Forrest Kelly is Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music, Emeritus, at Harvard University, where he served as Chair of the Music Department from 1999 to 2004. In 2005 he was named a Harvard College Professor in recognition of his teaching of undergraduates. Before coming to Harvard, he taught at Oberlin Conservatory (where he was the founding director of the program in Historical Performance and served as acting Dean of the Conservatory); at the Five Colleges in Massachusetts, where he was the founding director of the Five College Early Music Program. From 1972 to 1979 he taught at Wellesley College. He was a Visiting Scholar at King’s College, Cambridge (1976-77) and a Professeur invité at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris (1998). He has taught at the Juilliard School and at The New England Conservatory. He is the author of The Role of the Scroll, Capturing Music, First Nights: Five Performance Premieres, and Early Music: A Very Short Introduction. His book The Beneventan Chant was awarded the Otto Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society for 1989. Thomas is a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres of the French Republic and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Mediaeval Academy of America, and the American Academy in Rome. He has held awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies.

Ian Rosenbaum is a member of Sandbox Percussion, a group that has been in residence at Avaloch Farm many times. Over the course of these residencies, Sandbox has created many works at Avaloch, including Seven Pillars, a composition by Andy Akiho that was nominated for 2 GRAMMY awards and the Pulitzer Prize. In addition to his work as a performer, Ian teaches at the Peabody Institute and the Mannes College of Music.

For over 30 years, Tom Riley served as senior relationship manager and head of the CIBC Atlantic Trust Private Wealth Management Boston office. He worked closely with families, individuals and institutions providing comprehensive investment and wealth planning expertise. Tom also held responsibilities for the leadership and coordination of the client experience within the Boston office and was a member of the firm's Operating Committee.

Prior to joining the firm in 1993, Tom was a global equity analyst for Scudder, Stevens & Clark, providing in-depth fundamental research across a broad range of industries and supporting multiple investment disciplines.

He is a member of the board of trustees for Lesley University, where he is on the Executive Committee and is chair of the Investment Committee; has served as trustee for Babson College, where he is currently on the Investment Committee; and has also been a trustee for the Cambridge School of Weston, as treasurer and as past chair of the Finance and Investment committees. Tom is an active supporter of the Boy Scouts of America.

He is involved in numerous community organizations, including serving as director of the Chaffin Fund, which provides needs-based scholarships for college tuition assistance. Tom's professional memberships include the Boston Security Analysts Society and the CFA Institute.

Tom earned a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Business Administration with honors from Babson College. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

Matthew M. Marsit is an active conductor and clarinetist that has led ensembles and performed as a solo, chamber, and orchestral musician throughout the United States. He became chair of instrumental studies at Boston Conservatory at Berklee in 2018, and also serves as artistic director of the Charles River Wind Ensemble. Marsit has previously held conducting positions at Dartmouth College, Ithaca College, Cornell University, Drexel University, Symphony Nova, Chestnut Hill Orchestra, Bucks County Youth Ensembles, Performing Arts Institute of Wyoming Seminary, and Eastern U.S. Music Camp.

A champion for new music and advancing the wind ensemble repertoire, Marsit has led premiere performances of works by Christopher Marshall, Louis Andriessen, Daniel Basford, Christopher Theofanidis, Richard Marriott, Michael Gandolfi, Matthew Herman, Edward Green, and Thomas Miller, among others.

As a clarinetist, Marsit has performed with many ensembles including The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Fairmont Chamber Orchestra, and Cornell University’s Ensemble X, and has made solo appearances with the Keene State College Concert Band, Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble, Handel Society of Dartmouth College, Cornell University Jazz Ensemble, Performing Arts Institute of Wyoming Seminary, Drexel University Symphony Orchestra, and Chestnut Hill Orchestra. Marsit has served as clarinet faculty at Plymouth State University.

An advocate for the use of music as a vehicle for service, Marsit has led ensembles on service missions that collect and donation instruments to schools, as well as performing concerts and workshops to benefit struggling arts programs. His work at Dartmouth College allowed him to complete outreach projects with rural schools in New Hampshire and Vermont. This work included stimulating interest in performing arts programs like the highly successful Dartmouth Youth Wind Ensemble, where members of the Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble mentor and perform alongside middle school students throughout the region. In 2014, Marsit led the Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble on their first international service and performance tour to San José, Costa Rica. This tour partnered with the National Institute of Music in Costa Rica and the University of Costa Rica, as well as several Sistema Nacional de Educación Musical Schools throughout the country. Students were allowed to share and exchange with young students in low-income communities. Following the first tour in 2014, the Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble returned again in 2017.

A native of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, Marsit first completed his studies in music at Temple University in Philadelphia, where he graduated summa cum laude. He studied clarinet performance under the tutelage of Anthony Gigliotti and Ronald Reuben, and conducting with Luis Biava and Arthur Chodoroff. Additionally Marsit has studied conducting with some of the world’s most prominent instructors, including Mark Davis Scatterday at the Eastman School of Music, Timothy Reynish at the Royal Northern College of Music in the United Kingdom, and Gianluigi Gelmetti at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Italy. Marsit completed a M.M. in conducting from Boston Conservatory in 2012.