I am a 49 year old (hits the front in the geezer stakes) Software Engineer who emigrated to the US from Australia about 12 years ago. I've been playing piano on and off since I was six. Since I moved to the US I've been working on improvisational styles of music (Blues, especially New Orleans, getting into Jazz and Gospel). Only got back into it about 4 or 5 years ago and only really got focused on improving for last two years. Also play Sax/Flute and some Clarinet.
Currently rehearsing with a band - I would say we will be ready to play out early in the year. I have also sung in Church Choirs, played in pits (one show did Bari Sax, flute, Clarinet and Bass Clarinet - had to be dug out from under the collapsed pile of instruments after every show).
I am also busy relearning music theory, both Jazz and Classical - I never went past high school in music theory and only now have I come to understand how woefully bogus the theory they taught us at that level was - not only incomplete (as you would expect) but also quite misleading, even when it came to the harmony of JS Bach - one of the problems with growing up in Australia in those days was lack of access to a wide range of books - you were pretty much a hostage of the educational establishment.
Gear: QS8 main board, top board is a Yamaha S03 which I use mainly as a midi controller to a Technics WSA1R for Hammond sounds.