Welcome to Steph Waller.com!
Steph Waller was born in southern California and grew up in many different places. Without the advantages of early musical training, but raised in a family of professional musicians, she taught herself to read music and play the piano by the age of seven. By twelve she had begun to write music and play a large array of musical instruments, including piano, guitar, bass, banjo, mandolin and percussion. Recognizing her talent, her father Jackson J. Waller, a Jazz, Big Band and Dixieland drummer, made certain she took up an instrument in school. This encouragement led her into seven years of clarinet studies under Robert Raleigh and Henry Kline, respectively. At 16 Steph began a music career via club dates, concert tours, recording and frequent television and radio appearances. Over 200 of her songs and classical pieces have been published, covering a wide array of styles. Steph's music has been performed in California, New York, Oklahoma, England, Italy and Spain.
Just as her father's family influened her musically, Steph's mother's family influenced her literarily. With such well-known relatives as Mark Twain and Alexander Woolcot behind her, as well as her grandmother who taught English literature, Steph began reading literature at an early age. She wrote her first play at the age of 9, a play which was produced by an adult cast in Solvang, California, where she lived at the time. She wrote her first novel at 16, as well as many poems, some of which she set to music.
Steph currently manages Alla Breve Design for the Arts, a web design collective dedicated to creating affordable websites for individuals, groups and organizations in the Arts. She and her partner, K. Lynette Erwin, have five children between them that range from 18 to 39 years of age.
Steph Waller was born in southern California and grew up in many different places. Without the advantages of early musical training, but raised in a family of professional musicians, she taught herself to read music and play the piano by the age of seven. By twelve she had begun to write music and play a large array of musical instruments, including piano, guitar, bass, banjo, mandolin and percussion. Recognizing her talent, her father Jackson J. Waller, a Jazz, Big Band and Dixieland drummer, made certain she took up an instrument in school. This encouragement led her into seven years of clarinet studies under Robert Raleigh and Henry Kline, respectively. At 16 Steph began a music career via club dates, concert tours, recording and frequent television and radio appearances. Over 200 of her songs and classical pieces have been published, covering a wide array of styles. Steph's music has been performed in California, New York, Oklahoma, England, Italy and Spain.
Just as her father's family influened her musically, Steph's mother's family influenced her literarily. With such well-known relatives as Mark Twain and Alexander Woolcot behind her, as well as her grandmother who taught English literature, Steph began reading literature at an early age. She wrote her first play at the age of 9, a play which was produced by an adult cast in Solvang, California, where she lived at the time. She wrote her first novel at 16, as well as many poems, some of which she set to music.
Steph currently manages Alla Breve Design for the Arts, a web design collective dedicated to creating affordable websites for individuals, groups and organizations in the Arts. She and her partner, K. Lynette Erwin, have five children between them that range from 18 to 39 years of age.
