Natasha Pasternak is an artist in the most honest sense of the word. As a songwriter, composer, musican, producer, and performer, to a Professor and founder of her company, Desert Dream Creative. Natasha has fully embodied what it takes to be a successful musician and entrepreneur in today’s music industry.

Classically trained at the Randolph College for the Performing Arts in Toronto, she went on to excel in the local music scene with various projects. In 2010, she co-founded the acclaimed Toronto indie-pop band, Hands & Teeth. One part Broken Social Scene, one part Arcade Fire, Hands & Teeth dominated festivals across North America (SXSW, POP Montreal, Halifax POP, CMW, M for Montreal and NXNE to name a few). Their songs found homes locally and internationally, featured on various radio and television stations including the CBC, BBC, Much Music and MTV. And featured in various publications, including a 5/5 star review in NOW magazine for their first release. In 2016 Natasha did her first vocal arrangement for film for the Warner Bros. official trailer for The Legend of Tarzan, now with over 16,000,000 plays.

Natasha was a co-founding committee member for Women In Music L.A (WIM LA chapter) and a juror for FACTOR Canada, funding over $40,000,000 to artists across Canada in various musical disciplines. In 2021 she launched her own songwriting workshop and masterclass business, Desert Dream Creative, bringing the art of songwriting to all students. Over the years Natasha has been selected for various prestigious workshops and mentorships, including ASCAP’s Harold Adamson Workshop. Natasha worked one on one with top industry professionals (Mr. Hudson, Autumn Rowe, Jayson De Zuzio, Nicole Morier, Andrew Cider and Daniel Werman).

For the past 7 years she has been building programming and lecturing as well as the Assistant Director, program designer and lead instructor for The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music’s Summer Songwriting Intensive, now in it’s 4th year. June 2021, she was the Program Director in collaboration with Alicia Keys’ Foundation, She Is The Music, for the “Emerging Artist Writing Camp”. On top of lecturing and developing curriculum at UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Natasha spent most of 2019, working for the non-profit, Jail Guitar Doors, bringing songwriting and music into correctional institutions as a part of their rehabilitation. There, she lectured basic guitar and songwriting classes, as well as designed programming and organized concerts with her students within the correctional facilities.

Natasha is now the Director of Popular Music Conservatory at the Orange County School of the Performing Arts and a lecturer of Songwriting at UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and USC Thornton School of Music.

Visit www.desertdreamcreative.com for more information about Natasha’s songwriting workshop and masterclass company.