Steven Rash Email and Phone Number

Steven Rash is the Director of Bands at Odem High School. Previously he was the Director of Bands at Odem Junior High and the Assistant Director at Odem High School from 2007-February 2014. His bands have been very successful at UIL Concert & Sight-Reading Contest, have earned many "Sweepstakes" awards, have been State Semi-Finalists in the TMEA Honor Band Competition (2012 and 2019), State Finalists in the ATSSB Outstanding Performance Series Competition at both the middle school and high school levels, and earned the title of State Runner-Up for Concert March in the OPS Competition in 2014. In 2019 and 2017 The Spirit of OHS were back-to-back UIL State Semi-Finalists at the UIL State Marching Band Contest. He founded the Screeching Owl Jazz Band at Odem High School in 2010 and has enjoyed success with them at concerts and jazz festivals. The Odem HS Wind Ensemble performed under his direction at Carnegie Hall June 11th, 2016. He holds a full membership of the Texas Music Adjudicator Association for Concert Band, and is a Provissional Member for Marching Band. In February of 2024 at TMEA he was inducted as a member of Phi Beta Mu, the International Bandmasters Fraternity. He performs primarily on flute and secondarily on saxophone with many groups including The Corpus Christi Wind Symphony and the Absoflutely flute quartet.