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.