Leslie Hart is director/co-founder of Noise Lab and is an active freelance horn player and the music specialist at the Bing Nursery School at Stanford University. She completed a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Performance and Music Teaching and Learning from the Eastman School of Music in 2011. Leslie has several published works on learning music with creativity and improvisation and she performs regularly with local orchestras and opera companies.

David Hart is co-founder of Noise Lab and is passionate about music and all things trumpet. He completed a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Music Teaching and Learning from the Eastman School of Music. David focuses his education research on ways to improve creativity and improvisation in the music learning process. Currently, David is director of instrumental music at The Harker Middle School in San Jose, Ca. Dave performs as a freelance jazz trumpet player and is on faculty at the Stanford Jazz Workshop.

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland and raised in the Bay Area, Ivor Holloway fell in love with music as a young child when he heard saxophonist Stan Getz in concert. Ivor holds a Bachelor's degree in psychology with a minor in saxophone performance from Princeton University and a Master's in music composition from Mills College, and his teaching credits include the Community School of Music and Arts in Mountain View, Harker Middle School in San Jose, Stanford Jazz Workshop, and Noise Lab. Ivor lives in Palo Alto with his wife Erica and children Annie and Milo.