Steve Elgersma

music

Although it has only been in the last few years that I've really established myself (in small circles) as a performing musician, music and playing have always been a part of my life. Somewhere in the second grade time-span my parents had started me with piano lessons, which lasted until the end of grade 8, when the location of the high school meant it was no longer convenient to get to my teacher's house. By mid-high school, though, I had discovered keyboards, and purchased my first one in grade 11 (an Ensoniq Mirage 8-bit sampler).

More gear followed through university, but although I had done some performing, it wasn't until the move down to the US that I got back into it. The church we joined had a worship team, and initially I did sound for them. Within a year, I was playing occasional keys, and after a few years, became the main pianist/keyboardist. In late 2005, I joined a project that would eventually become a coffeehouse-gigging duo called reverential, culminating in a demo recording session at the Sound Kitchen in Nashville before ending in early 2010. During all of this, in September 2006, I started taking piano lessons again, and continue to see improvement and development in my playing.

My influences have varied over the years, but the main ones are Vince Clarke, Howard Jones, Vangelis, and, most recently, Thomas Dolby and Jordan Rudess.

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