Ashok is passionate about teaching. He has taught the cello, given chamber music classes and adjudicated competitions in many settings including at the Yehudi Menuhin School, the Royal Academy of Music and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Ashok helped create the Young Artists Scheme as part of the Highgate International Chamber Music Festival, and through that has mentored some of the country's top young ensembles including the Kanneh-Mason Piano Trio, Bukolika Piano Trio and Mithras Piano Trio.
Picture below: the Kanneh-Mason Piano Trio (Braimah, Isata & Sheku Kanneh-Mason) - together with Ashok and the head of the Ex-Animo Foundation, Marlena Hellebø
