Asher began playing the toy piano at age 3 and could reproduce short commercial jingles by ear. Throughout gradeschool he was very passionate about drumming, much to the chagrin of all his elementary school teachers and his parents, who refused to allow a drum kit in the house. He began piano instruction at the age of twelve. There was no music progam at Asher's elementary or Junior High. When he joined the high school band his freshman year of highschool, he was placed in the percussion section, where he played a variety of pitched percussion instruments in concert band, and snare, bass drum and cymbals in the Pep band. Every day, he would sneak into class an hour early to play the drum kit, or one of the high school's cellos that were occasionally left out by careless string ensemble members. By age seventeen, Asher bought his first bass guitar and started playing rock, funk, and playing Primus covers with local friends in Texas; at the age of eighteen he picked up the upright bass and started his foray into jazz. It was this same year he was shown by a friend of a roommate a program that he used as a composition tool. From then on, Asher has been learning to compose, and hopes to continue learning till the day he dies. And maybe even beyond then.

EDUCATION:

University of Southern Maine, Bachelor of Art,  Bass Performance

Bronislaw Suchanek, Private instruction 2001-present

Bruce Gertz, Private instruction 2005

STUFF I'VE DONE:

•USM Symphony Orchestra Principal Bassist 2003-04
•Many various USM Jazz Combos
•USM Theater pit band:
    Cabaret
•Arundel Barn Playhouse pit band:
     Grease
    Godspell
    Route 66
•Various community events, local clubs and pubs