Steve Lindeman

Stephan David (Steve, Stephen) Lindeman (born October 23, 1954) is an American composer, keyboard player, and songwriter.

Lindeman was born on October 23, 1954 in Columbus, Indiana, to a family of German-Dutch-Scandavian and Welsh descent. He is the son of Winifred Belmont Lindeman (née Jones), a teacher, and Clifford Louis Lindeman, a Prudential life insurance salesman. He is the brother of musician and professor Timothy Harry Lindeman, attorney Michael John Lindeman, pastor Clifford Louis Lindeman, Jr.(Skip) Lindeman, and Inja Lindsay (née Lindeman).

He holds degrees from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music (BM Jazz Studies, Piano Concentration, 1977), Queens College, the City University of New York (MA Music Theory, 1983), and Rutgers University (Ph.D. Music History and Theory, 1995). He has studied piano with Theodore Hunt, Paul Wirth, Ronnie Matthews, Kenny Barron, Tamir Hendelman, and Stefan Karlsson, Jazz Composition and Improvisation with David Baker, Analysis with Carl Schachter and Charles Burkhart, Composition with Jim McNeely and Mike Holober, and Film Scoring with Kurt Bestor, Larry Groupé, & Merrill Jenson.

Lindeman freelanced as a keyboard player, composer, and arranger in the New York City area, 1977-1996. Moving to Utah in 1996, he was a Professor Music at the Brigham Young University of Music, 1996-2020, teaching music theory, orchestration, jazz piano, analysis, and history, and where he played piano, electric piano, and Hammond organ, and composed and arranged for Q'd up, the Faculty Jazz Quintet. He worked as a composer and keyboard player in the Salt Lake City area 1996-2021.

He moved to Los Angeles in 2022 to pursue film scoring, and music performance.

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