Asher maintains an active concert career: notable recent engagements include solo recital performances at the Penderecki Academy in Krakow, the Royal College of Music in London (UK), the Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto), and as a concerto soloist with the Washington-Idaho Symphony Orchestra (as well as the North York Concerto Orchestra and the Mozart Players of Toronto).

A passionate, committed teacher, Asher is on the Piano Faculty of the University of Toronto where he is a Lecturer of Piano and Chamber Music. Asher also serves on the Piano Faculty at York University in north Toronto. Prior to these appointments, Asher served as an Assistant professor of Piano at the University of Arkansas, and he has taught at several other institutions, including the Interlochen School for the Arts.

Asher serves as an adjudicator and masterclass clinician at many festivals and competitions throughout North America, and internationally, and is also a proud member of the Royal Conservatory’s College of Examiners. As a performer and scholar, Asher’s principal focus is to advocate for women’s music, and his work has been published by Cambridge University Press’s Tempo, as well as Clavier/Piano Magazine, American Music Teacher, the European Piano Teachers Association Piano Journal,  MTNA’s E-Journal, the Kaprálová Society Journal, and others.

Learn more about Asher at: www.asherianarmstrong.com