Worthington: Sundays on the Steinway

Sundays on the Steinway 

Sundays on the Steinway:
Celebrating the 120th Birthday of the 1906 Steinway Grand Piano
A Series of Concert Matinees at 2:00 p.m.

Doors open at 1:00 p.m.

Sunday, September 20th – Rebby Lee
​Sunday, October 25th – Kurt Haag
Sunday, November 15th – Charlie Albright
Sunday, December 6th – Community Piano Teachers
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Join the Friends of the Auditorium and the City of Worthington in celebrating the 120th birthday and the 30th Anniversary of the renovation of our beautiful 1906 Steinway Grand Piano. Once a month – from September to December – we will be featuring pianists performing a free matinee concert. 

Stay tuned for more information here on our featured pianists.​ ADMISSION IS FREE.
There will be a freewill donation towards the continued maintenance of our 1906 Steinway Grand Piano.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25TH – 2:00 pm
Featured Pianist – Kurt Haag

Kurt Haag is a math educator and musician residing in Colorado Springs, CO.  His passions for education and music began while growing up in Becker, MN.  After graduating high school in 2011, he attended Concordia College (Moorhead, MN), earning his B.A. in Mathematics, Education, and Music in 2015.  He was a mathematics teacher at Worthington High School (Worthington, MN) from 2015-2019 and at Becker High School (Becker, MN) from 2019-2023.  He earned a M.S. in Education with a Mathematics Emphasis from Southwest Minnesota State University (Marshall, MN) in 2021 and a M.S. in Mathematics from Emporia State University (Emporia, KS) in 2022.  He served as Assistant Teaching Professor of Mathematics at University of New England (Biddeford, ME) for one year and as Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Pikes Peak State College (Colorado Springs, CO) for two years.

Kurt’s early piano playing days in Becker included solo, collaborative, and church playing.  He also played euphonium in band, played piano in jazz band, and sang in choir while in high school.  At Concordia, Kurt played euphonium in The Concordia Band and piano in both The Concordia Band and The Concordia Orchestra.  He won two concerto competitions, thus performing as a soloist with both The Concordia Band and The Concordia Orchestra.  He also served as a collaborative pianist for numerous chamber music and recital performances while in college.  In Worthington, Kurt continued his musical involvement with the Worthington Chamber Singers, Worthington High School and Minnesota West Community and Technical College piano lessons and theatre productions, Worthington Community Band, Worthington Area Symphony Orchestra, and American Lutheran Church, and private piano lessons.  Since then, Kurt has continued to play as a solo musician and collaborator.

Kurt is currently teaching online math classes for Art of Problem Solving, tutoring privately, and taking math classes and continuing his piano studies at the University of Colorado – Colorado Springs.  In his free time, Kurt enjoys running, hiking, and attending athletic events, concerts, and theater performances.