Tom Ashworth joined the faculty of the University of Minnesota in 1990. His trombone/euphonium studio includes doctoral, masters and undergraduate students. His students have gone on to successful careers as university and public school music educators, and as members of orchestras and service ensembles. Ashworth is a former member of the Kansas City Symphony Orchestra, and taught trombone and jazz improvisation at the University of Kansas from 1987 to 1990. As the featured trombonist with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra (SPCO), he has recorded CDs for Teldec, Atlantic, Decca and EMI, and has appeared with the SPCO on tour in New York, Tokyo, Osaka, Hong Kong and Singapore. Ashworth has performed with the Minnesota Orchestra, the Summit Brass, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and the Chicago-based Music of the Baroque. He has also performed on trombone and euphonium at the Grand Teton Music Festival in Jackson, Wyoming. On occasion, he can be heard playing Broadway shows at the Ordway Music Theatre in Saint Paul.

From July 1994 to August 1995 Ashworth was the Lecturer in Trombone at the Canberra (Australia) School of Music. He performed with the orchestras of Sydney, Tasmania, and Canberra and joined the Sydney Symphony Orchestra for their 1995 European tour. Ashworth has appeared on national broadcasts of Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion and William McGlaughlin's Saint Paul Sunday Live. He has been on the faculty of numerous international brass symposia, and has appeared as a clinician, soloist and adjudicator throughout the USA, and in Australia and Europe. Ashworth served as the Host of the 1994 International Trombone Workshop and the 1998 International Tuba Euphonium Conference.

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