Steve Asheim recently retired as director of bands at Heritage High School of
Littleton, Colorado. He is a graduate of Western State College of Colorado and
received his Masters Degree from the University of Northern Colorado. He taught
public school music for thirty-one years—six in the Northglenn School District and
twenty-five at Heritage High School. He is currently an educational sales representative
for Flesher-Hinton Music Company. He was appointed conductor of the WSCColorado
Brass Band in 2005.
In 1984-85 he taught in the Borough of Waltham Forest as a peripatetic brass
specialist. During that school year he conducted one of the wind bands, the district jazz
ensemble, and started a percussion ensemble. He also performed regularly with the
Chris Holmes Brass Ensemble of London. He has been guest conductor of twenty
Colorado League honor bands and served as conductor of the 1987 Colorado All-State Jazz Ensemble. He conducted the Rocky Mountain Brassworks British Brass Band for thirteen years and the Denver El Jebel Shrine Band for two years.