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
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.
ADMISSION IS FREE.
There will be a freewill donation towards the continued maintenance of our 1906 Steinway Grand Piano.
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
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.
ADMISSION IS FREE.
There will be a freewill donation towards the continued maintenance of our 1906 Steinway Grand Piano.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20TH - 2:00 pm
Featured Pianist - Rebby Lee
Featured Pianist - Rebby Lee
Rebby Lee has been performing throughout Minnesota since 1998. She played at the Radisson Hotel downtown Saint Paul ten years. Rebby has recorded fifteen albums, eight of Rebby’s original music. For over 15 years, Rebby performed two summer concerts at Itasca State Park, the oldest state park in Minnesota, where she finds inspiration and beauty, and has written many songs.
Rebby has been writing poems, musical ditties and songs since she was a little girl. Beginning at a very young age, she was fortunate to have excellent exposure to all genres of music growing up; was trained in classical piano, violin, percussion and performed in orchestra, band, jazz band, marching band and a girls’ drum & bugle corps, as well as singing in a variety of choral groups.
Since moving to Southwest Minnesota in 2019, Rebby has been a part of the Worthington community. She has worked for the Nobles County Auditor’s office, Attorney Jeff Flynn, and served on the board of the Historic Dayton House as a board member, president and then house director/coordinator, including chairing the 20th anniversary celebration in 2024. She is also known for her Dundee Love Cakes.
Rebby has been writing a book about her musical journey called “The Songwriter” for the last five years. In 2023, she did a series of seven concerts related to her book at the Historic Dayton House. In 2025, Rebby was awarded an Artist Grant from the Southwest Minnesota Arts Council to work with an editor from New York on her book and to build her website which features 8 CDs of her original music.
www.rebbylee.com
Rebby is currently publishing a song story each month along with releasing the song itself on Bandcamp.
rebbylee.bandcamp.com
Rebby has been writing poems, musical ditties and songs since she was a little girl. Beginning at a very young age, she was fortunate to have excellent exposure to all genres of music growing up; was trained in classical piano, violin, percussion and performed in orchestra, band, jazz band, marching band and a girls’ drum & bugle corps, as well as singing in a variety of choral groups.
Since moving to Southwest Minnesota in 2019, Rebby has been a part of the Worthington community. She has worked for the Nobles County Auditor’s office, Attorney Jeff Flynn, and served on the board of the Historic Dayton House as a board member, president and then house director/coordinator, including chairing the 20th anniversary celebration in 2024. She is also known for her Dundee Love Cakes.
Rebby has been writing a book about her musical journey called “The Songwriter” for the last five years. In 2023, she did a series of seven concerts related to her book at the Historic Dayton House. In 2025, Rebby was awarded an Artist Grant from the Southwest Minnesota Arts Council to work with an editor from New York on her book and to build her website which features 8 CDs of her original music.
www.rebbylee.com
Rebby is currently publishing a song story each month along with releasing the song itself on Bandcamp.
rebbylee.bandcamp.com
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25TH - 2:00 pm
Featured Pianist - Kurt Haag
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.
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.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15TH - 2:00 pm
Featured Pianist - Charlie Albright
Featured Pianist - Charlie Albright
American pianist/composer/improviser Charlie Albright is a recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant, Gilmore Young Artist Award, and the Ruhr Klavier Festival Young Artist Award presented by Marc-André Hamelin (Germany) and winner of the Young Concert Artists International Auditions. In addition to performing, Albright is sought after as a speaker, masterclass instructor, teacher, and competition judge. His debut commercial recording, Vivace, has sold thousands of copies worldwide, and the first two parts of his three-part, live, all-Schubert recordings were released in 2017 and 2020. Charlie Albright breaks the “classical” rules of music by connecting with audiences like no other. Through his music, speaking, and unique improvisations, he crosses genres...and makes it fun.
Albright regularly performs in programs with artists from all genres, including vocalist/conductor Bobby McFerrin, violinist Joshua Bell, pianist Emanuel Ax, conductor Gum Nanse, and Broadway vocalists Mandy Gonzalez, Scarlett Strallen, and Hugh Panaro. He has performed five times with revered cellist Yo-Yo Ma: at the honorary degree ceremony at Harvard University for Senator Ted Kennedy; at a 10th anniversary remembrance of 9/11; at the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison; at the Aspen Institute’s Citizen Artistry conference in New York; and with the Silk Road Project.
Albright appears regularly worldwide with such orchestras as the San Francisco, Seattle, Boston Pops, Philly Pops, BBC Concert Orchestra, Seongnam Philharmonic (Korea), Bergen (Norway), Victoria (Canada), and NCPA (China) Symphonies; and at venues including the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Grieg Hall (Norway), and the mainstage of Carnegie Hall.
A firm believer in education, Albright founded the Charlie Albright Scholarship and Charlie Albright Piano in collaboration with the Centralia College Foundation in his hometown. The scholarship provides financial aid to music students, and money was raised to purchase and maintain a new nine-foot Steinway piano for the college’s Corbet Hall.
Albright graduated as the first classical pianist in the Harvard/NEC Joint Program and received his Artist Diploma from the Juilliard School, having studied with Nancy Adsit, Wha-Kyung Byun, and Yoheved Kaplinsky. Albright is an official Steinway Artist.
https://www.charliealbright.com
Albright regularly performs in programs with artists from all genres, including vocalist/conductor Bobby McFerrin, violinist Joshua Bell, pianist Emanuel Ax, conductor Gum Nanse, and Broadway vocalists Mandy Gonzalez, Scarlett Strallen, and Hugh Panaro. He has performed five times with revered cellist Yo-Yo Ma: at the honorary degree ceremony at Harvard University for Senator Ted Kennedy; at a 10th anniversary remembrance of 9/11; at the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison; at the Aspen Institute’s Citizen Artistry conference in New York; and with the Silk Road Project.
Albright appears regularly worldwide with such orchestras as the San Francisco, Seattle, Boston Pops, Philly Pops, BBC Concert Orchestra, Seongnam Philharmonic (Korea), Bergen (Norway), Victoria (Canada), and NCPA (China) Symphonies; and at venues including the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Grieg Hall (Norway), and the mainstage of Carnegie Hall.
A firm believer in education, Albright founded the Charlie Albright Scholarship and Charlie Albright Piano in collaboration with the Centralia College Foundation in his hometown. The scholarship provides financial aid to music students, and money was raised to purchase and maintain a new nine-foot Steinway piano for the college’s Corbet Hall.
Albright graduated as the first classical pianist in the Harvard/NEC Joint Program and received his Artist Diploma from the Juilliard School, having studied with Nancy Adsit, Wha-Kyung Byun, and Yoheved Kaplinsky. Albright is an official Steinway Artist.
https://www.charliealbright.com
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6TH - 2:00 pm
Featured Pianists - Community Piano Teachers
Featured Pianists - Community Piano Teachers
Join us as we feature area piano teachers on our beautiful Steinway.
