Your Band Director

Angela Nass-Hillman earned her Bachelor of Music Performance and Master of Music Education degrees at the University of Southern Mississippi. She began her band directing career at Bellview Middle School in 2008. In 2014, she excitedly accepted the band director position at Brown-Barge Middle School. Mrs. Nass-Hillman has lead her bands to earn Superior and Excellent ratings at Music Performance Assessment. She has also taken groups to perform at the Southern Star Music Festival in Atlanta Georgia, and in Disney World. Several of her students have gone on to earn music scholarships and major in music.

Mrs. Nass-Hillman was born and raised in Wyoming. She began playing clarinet in 1991and picked-up saxophone as a secondary instrument in 1992. She auditioned and made it into the Wyoming All State band on clarinet three times, was a member of the Wyoming All State Marching Band and performed with that group in Dublin Ireland in 1998. During her Junior year in high school, she auditioned and made it into the prestigious All Northwest Honor Band. She was one of only three clarinetists from the state of Wyoming to perform in the group that year.

During her college career, Mrs. Nass-Hillman taught private clarinet and saxophone lessons, and taught sectionals for local middle school and high school bands. She performed in the USM Wind Ensemble under the direction of Dr. Thomas Fraschillo, who is a past president of the American Bandmasters Association. Mrs. Nass-Hillman was a also member of the Pride of Mississippi Marching Band for four years before becoming a graduate assistant for the group. She traveled to Italy twice to perform with the Italian Army Band. Her travels also included a trip to Scotland to perform in the annual Edinburgh Easter parade.

Mrs. Nass-Hillman has performed with the Pensacola Symphony Orchestra and with the Meridian Mississippi Symphony Orchestra. She was principal clarinetist in the Pensacola Civic Band from 2009-2013. She has also performed in the pit orchestra for many musical productions at the Pensacola Little Theater, University of West Florida, Pensacola State College, Casper College, Central Wyoming College, and the University of Southern Mississippi.

In her personal time, Mrs. Nass-Hillman enjoys spending time with her husband Wess Hillman, who teaches band at Beulah Academy of Science plays bass trombone in the Pensacola Symphony Orchestra, and their daughters 7-year-old Sarah and 3-year-old Zoey.