• Check out my father's book Zahwu, coming soon from Roseleaf Publishing: Zahwu Sero Te Amavi will be published by Walton in the 2009 catalogue.
• Kurt was the theory teacher for the first ever Pipe Organ Encounter Advanced. Amazing young organists!
• Shalom Aleikhem, premiered by Averill Summer and the Tampa Bay Children's Chorus is now available from Walton.
• Kurt's paper "That Christian Enamored with Aesthetics: the musicological misunderstanding of Kierkegaard" was awarded the Woodberry Prize by the English and History Department at UNL. This may be the most obscure prize ever. It is for outstanding graduate seminar paper on an interdisciplinary 19th century subject.
• The faculty at UNL voted Kurt this year's recipient of the F. Pace Woods Scholarship for creative/scholarly excellence.
• Kurt won the Vreeland award for outstanding creative achievement at UNL.
• Kurt won the Eva A. Christensen memorial organ scholarship and played a concert in sparkling downtown Imperial, Nebraska.
• Kurt's song cycle Three Poems by Gerald Manley Hopkins has been accepted for performance at the 2005 College Music Society's Southern Chapter Conference February 24-26. The premiere will take place at the University of Florida with Dr. Eugenia Garrity from the University of Central Florida as the soloist.
• On February 22, 2005, Michelangelo's On Beauty will be performed by the Herald Vocal Arts Ensemble at the Paladium Theatre in St. Petersburg. Kurt will conduct the piece and be available for a meet the composer forum following the performance.
• The Florida American Choral Directors Association convention featured the Advanced Women's Chorus from Blake High School of the Performing Arts on November 4, 2004. The chorus premiered Deum Noster Refugium, a work they recently commissioned from Kurt.