Roderick Hare, President
Rod is the Founding Board President of the Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative, a non-profit organization dedicated to collaboration and economic sustainability for artists and arts organizations. Rod also serves on the Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation’s Education Outreach Committee and is a board member of New Noise Santa Barbara, a music conference and festival. Rod is founder and CEO of Mission Ridge Capital, LLC, an investment firm.
Michael Marans, Vice President
Michael Marans has been active in the music products industry for over 30 years. A life-long devotee of music technology, Michael has been intimately involved in the design, development, marketing, and sales of a wide array of successful technology-based music products. He is the president of MV Pro Audio, former executive vice president of Event Electronics, and former technical editor of Keyboard magazine. An avid synthesist, he has also created numerous sound libraries for a variety of artists, composers, and instrument manufacturers.
Ian Smith, Treasurer
Attorney, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, LLP, President of the Board of Trustees of the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum.
Jeff Theimer
Jeff is Director of the New Noise Music Foundation. New Noise produces local concerts, events and cultural activities in the Santa Barbara region including the ‘New Noise Santa Barbara Music Conference & Festival’ which occurs annually in the Fall. Prior to co-founding New Noise, Jeff was the Marketing Director of 92.9 KJEE in Santa Barbara and worked as Publicity Manager at Alternative Rock radio station 106.7 KROQ in Los Angeles. A Santa Barbara native, Jeff is familiar with the needs of Notes For Notes, it’s importance as a community resource and advocates for collaboration with businesses and non profits who can strengthen its message and reach.
Natalie Noone
Accomplished singer/songwriter/guitarist, and daughter of renowned recording artist, Peter Noone of Herman’s Hermits.
Eric Shifflet
Eric Shiflett is Program Director for the Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation and as such is actively involved with their arts education initiatives. After graduating from UCSB, Eric has worked in promotions and marketing for KTYD and the Lobero Theatre Foundation before starting his career at the Bowl in 1995. Trained as a classical violinist as a child, Eric looks to share the same types of experiences that he enjoyed during his formative years through working with a variety of youth music programs including Notes for Notes.
Matt Kettmann
Matt is the senior editor of The Santa Barbara Independent, where he’s worked as a journalist since 1999, as well as a writer for Time, Smithsonian, Sunset, Wine Spectator, and other magazines. He is also the co-founder of New Noise Santa Barbara, an annual music conference and festival held each fall.
Philip Gilley
Philip grew up in Woodstock-not THE Woodstock but Woodstock, VT. Always interested in music, particularly film scoring, he found even at a young age that learning music via traditional methods would be a hurdle. It wasn’t until the age of 17 when he got his hands on a guitar, taught himself how to play and finally fulfilled his dreams of creating music. He moved to Santa Barbara in 2004 in pursuit of a career in Screenwriting-which he still finds time to pursue, however it was his desire to immerse himself in the community that led to the formation of Notes for Notes. While participating in the Big Brothers program he found that his “little brother” was interested in learning drums, however they were forced to make trips to Instrumental Music so Philip could teach him drums on the demo kits at the store. It soon became apparent that this was not a sustainable model and from this experience came the idea to form Notes for Notes. Philip’s dream is to expand the organization nationally with MusicBox studios in as many cities as he can put them in.
