Welcome to Steph Waller .com
Steph was born in California and grew up in many different places. Without the advantages of early musical training, but raised in a musical family, 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. After graduation, 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 was reading grownup material at an early age. She wrote her
first play at the age of nine, a play which was produced by an adult cast in Solvang, California, where she lived. She wrote her first novel at 16, as well
as many poems, some of which she set to music.
In 2006 Steph and Lynette were featured in the Rhombus Media documentary, Mozartballs, which was directed by
Academy Award winning director Larry Weinstein and which still airs all around the world.
Steph currently manages Alla Breve Design for the Arts, a web design collective dedicated to creating affordable
websites for artists. She and her partner, Lynette Erwin, have five children between them that range from
18 to 38 years of age.