Natalia Tomasello is the band director at Alder Creek Middle School. She is in her 7th year as a music educator. She was previously employed as the Director of Bands at Robert E. McQueen High School in Reno, Nevada (from 2018-2020) and the middle school band director in Firebaugh-Las Deltas Unified School District (from 2016-2018). Natalia also serves as the President of the Board for Donner Mine Music Camp. She works every summer for the camp as the musical assistant and librarian. She has been a part of DMMC for over 15 years.
Natalia attended Fresno State University from 2010-2014, where she graduated with her Bachelor Arts Degree in Music Education. Natalia worked on her Masters in Instrumental Performance and her Single Subject teaching credential in Music from 2014-2016. During her graduate and credential studies, Natalia worked as a Teachers Associate teaching introductory music classes to non-music majors, and she gave lessons to first year college students. During the last year of her graduate work, Natalia served as a Graduate Assistant for the Fresno State Bulldog Marching Band and Scholarship Bulldog Beat groups under the direction of Steve McKeithen. When Natalia graduated in 2016, she was awarded the Dean’s Medal for the Arts and Humanities Department at Fresno State.
Natalia Tomasello is a versatile musician who has been playing and studying saxophone for over half of her life. Throughout her schooling, Natalia has participated in several ensembles including Fresno State’s top wind ensemble, the Fresno State Wind Orchestra. Natalia also became a member of Fresno State’s top jazz ensemble, the Fresno State Jazz Orchestra, where she performed on both tenor saxophone and alto saxophone. Throughout her jazz practice, Natalia focused on woodwind doubling including performing on the flute, piccolo and clarinet. She also spent three years in the Fresno State Scholarship Band “Bulldog Beat.” Natalia was an active member in marching band for 10 years of her life. Through this practice, Natalia has become a leader in both her high school marching band and her college marching band. She has had the honor of serving as the Drum Major for two years each in both her high school and college careers. Natalia also enjoyed performing in The Fresno State Saxophone Quartet.
Natalia started her teaching career fairly early, from 2011-2013 taught for the Clovis East Marching Band as a Visual and Music coach. Throughout her college career, she taught countless private lessons to college, high school, and middle school students. After graduating with her Masters in 2016, Natalia began teaching at Firgerbaugh Middle school in Firebaugh California. After concluding 2 years in Firebaugh she, and her now husband, moved to Reno, Nevada where Natalia took on the role as Director of Bands at Robert E. McQueen High School. She took the McQueen band to new heights while there including the Northern Nevada Marching Band State Championship, numerous superior ratings with the concert ensembles, and made major improvements to the band room. Following her time at McQueen, Natalia took on her current role as the band director at Alder Creek Middle School, her alma mater.
Currently, Natalia lives in Verdi, NV with her husband Spencer and their two dachshunds, Toby and Penny.