Upcoming Events
PAMAR presents
“KAT” Modiano group- Latin Jazz Celebration
Interactive festive rhythmic concert with award winning Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano and her group’s unique Latin Jazz interpretations and original tunes honouring the Lenape Nation.
At New York Public Library – Inwood Library, NYC
Featuring stars lineup:
Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano – Flute & EFX, video screening
Carlos Del Pino- Electric Upright Bass
Jhair Sala – Percussion
Rafael Monteagudo – Drums
– “Yael Acher is a flutist who isn’t about faking the funk…her hard-edged Junk Kat Modiano ensemble is run from the kick drum.”- Steve Smith, Time Out New York.
Cosponsored by PAMAR – Pan American Musical Art Research, Inc., https://pamar.org/
This event is part of – NoMAA’s Uptown Arts Stroll- An annual cultural Festival in Upper Manhattan, promoted by Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance (NoMAA). More information on Calendar
“A Night at La Nacional:” 100 Years of “A Hidden Gem” on Manhattan’s W 14th Street
DATE & TIME: Tues. June 24, 2025 5:30 pm – 11pm
VENUE: La Nacional – 239 West 14th Street (MANHATTAN)
Cuban Cultural Center Present
Nuestros sonidos
Tribute Concert to Cuban Composer Leo Brouwer
Including in the program:
“La región más transparente” – for Flute and Piano
with
Yael Acher- Modiano – Flute
Mariel Mayz – Piano
Ticket Link – TBA
Little Midday Concert
Flute soundscapes – Bach to Contemporary
with
Yael Acher KAT Modiano – Flutist Composer
Pieces by J.S. Bach and Y. Acher-Modiano
at
The Church of the Transfiguration
https://littlechurch.org/music/a-little-midday-music
May 13, at 12:30-1:00pm
https://sites.google.com/view/harmony3reedtrio/home
“Celebrating Women’s Voices”
Sunday, May 11, 3pm
St. John’s in the Village, Greenwich Village
featuring Yaala Ballin, vocalist
Yael Acher, flutist and composer
With works by J.S. Bach, Fernande Decruck, Alyssa Morris, and Acher-Modiano
Harmony 3 includes NYC based established artists:
Katelyn Simone, oboe
Ella Avni-Levi, clarinet
Melissa Kritzer, bassoon
Flute & Organ SOUNDSCAPES
with
Yael Acher KAT Modiano – Flute
Arin Maisky – Organ
Continuing a long collaboration, the two artists will perform the program that they will record for an album with th eDutch lable, Aliud Records.
The program encompass pieces by J.S. Bach, G. Faure, J. Alain, B. Andersen and Y. Acher-Modiano.
Tickets: suggested donation
Music for Hope Concert Series Presents:
Sunday April 6 at 5:30pm
Soundscapes for Hope
Renaissance to Contemporary
with
Yael Acher KAT Modiano (flute)
& Special guest
the Program encompasses improvisations and interpretations of Renaissance and Baroque music masterpieces by Orlando di Lasso, J.S. Bach, and G.Ph. Telemann, as well as contemporary new pieces by Yael Acher-Modiano, Bo Andersen, and Kuno Kjærbye.
Admission: $20/adult, $10/seniors and youth
“KAT” Modiano – Urban Jazz group
Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano- Flute & efx, Composition
Carlos del Pino – Electric Contrabass
Angel “Hunter” Montanez – Percussion
at Kismat Indian Restaurant and music venue
Friday, March 7, 7-10pm
Free admission
Soundscapes for Hope– Freedom in Music
Renaissance to Contemporary
with
Yael Acher KAT Modiano (flute) & Kuno Kjærbye (violin)
At the historic and newly renovated Chapel – concert hall: KONCERTKAPELLET in Roskilde, Denmark
On January 29 at 7:30 pm (local time)
The improvisations and interpretations of Renaissance and Baroque music masterpieces by Orlando di Lasso, J.S. Bach, and G.Ph. Telemann, as well as contemporary new pieces by Yael Acher-Modiano, Bo Andersen, and Kuno Kjærbye.
Link to concert info
Sunday Service with special guest Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano – Flute
With Bo Andersen, Organ, Composition
Pieces by Bo Andersen, Claude Debussy, and Antoni Chlondowski
time: Sunday, January 24, 2025, at 10am
Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano
Live Electro-acoustic Film Score at Copenhagen Silent Film Festival 2025
@ Cinamteket (Danish Film Institute)
Film Title: Vanina (A. von Gerlach, 1922)
Screening time: January 24, 2025, at 19:00 (7pm) – local time
Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano
Live Electro-acoustic Film Score at Copenhagen Silent Film Festival 2025
@ Cinamteket (Danish Film Institute)
Film Title: Kohlhiesels Töchter (E. Lubitsch, 1920)
Screening time: January 22, 2025, at 20:30hrs (8:30pm)- local time
“KAT” Modiano @ United Palace
KAT Modiano Group
Urban jazz / beat / electro-acoustic / screening
United Palace
4140 Broadway, New York, NY 10033
Date: Tuesday, January 14th | Doors: 6:30pm | Show: 7–8:30pm |
$20 general admission, $10 seniors & students, children FREE
Led by NYC based award winning, multiple genres flutist/composer/educator Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano, this cutting-edge urban jazz & beat ensemble “KAT” Modiano appeared at Blue Note, Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola, nublu NYC, Iridium, BAMcafe (NYC)), Newark Museum, NJPAC (NJ), Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Cph Jazz House (Denmark), Jazz i Malmö (Sweden), Jazzahead! Bremen, Germany, and more. “KAT” Modiano’s latest album title NOMAD Imagination – Roots of Love is out on the Grammy nominated Aliud Records.
“KAT” Modiano Group
Line up:
Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano – Flute & EFX, Compositions, Video
Carlos Del Pino – Upright Electric Bass
Jhair Sala – Percussion
Dedicated to raising awareness for Peace, Social change and Nature, this Multimedia show merges jazz-funk-blues, indigenous beats, with electro-acoustic and video-collage screening.
SONOROS AMERICANOS
Yael Acher KAT Modiano – Flute
Carlos del Pino– Upright Electric Bass
The international NYC based award winning artists take the audience on a journey through colorful soundscapes of Classical Cuban music with special Flute & Bass renditions of pieces by Jose White, Cirilo Villaverde, Manuel Saumell, Ernesto Lecuona, Leo Brower and Ignacio Cervantes, as well as an origianl piece by Yael Acher-Modiano. Honoring the legacy of St Frances Cabrini, the program also includes a Neapolitan song. The artists dedicate the concert to Peace, Human-Rights and Animal-Rights.
Cuban Cultural Center presents:
‘LA BELLA CUBANA’ ~ A FLUTE AND BASS RECITAL
Thursday, November 21, 2024 at 7 pm
https://www.cubanculturalcenter.org/
An end-of-season concert featuring the most emblematic Cuban composers of all time, with unique arrangements for flute and bassist Carlos del Pino and flutist and composer Yael Acher KAT Modiano.
Venue: INSTITUTO CERVANTES
Location: 211 E 49th St, bet. 2nd & 3rd Aves., NYC
FREE ADMISSION
RSVP AT: info@cubanculturalcenter.org
Tune -in:
Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano’s interview and music
on “LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME” radio show, hosted by Francesca D Alessio
Flute Charity Concert for Peace
to Benefit
Dominican Women Development Center, NYC
Sunday June 16 at 2pm
at Holyrood Church
715 W179 Street, New York, NY 10033
Flute Soundscapes for Peace
Baroque to Contemporary, Latin Songs and Spirituals
with Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano– Award Winning Fulbright Scholar Flutist and Composer.
– “[A] unique phenomenon on a number of accounts… flexibility and fluency of Kat’s flute… enrapture and illuminate our minds.” By Phil’s Review, Atlanta Audio Club
Admission: Suggested donations $15 and up.
80% of Ticket Sales donated directly to Dominican Women Development Center.
20% to the performing artist.
All are welcome to reception after the concert
Spring Heart Charity – Flute Soundscapes
Solo Flute Charity Concert to Benefit
NEW ALTERNATIVES for Homeless LGBTQ Youth.
Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano
Baroque to Contemporary and Spirituals
Award Winning Fulbright Scholar Flutist and Composer
Saturday, May 25 at 7pm
at Metro Baptist Church
410 W40th Street, New York, NY 10018
Ticket and Donations Link
Tickets: Suggested donations $30 and up.
80% of Ticket Sales donated directly to New Alternatives. 20% to the performing artist.
Ticket can be paid now or picked up at the concert.
Mount Kisco Arts Council Presents
Flute Soundscapes – Baroque to Contemporary
Concert dedicated to PEACE
with Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano – Flutist and Composer
– “[A] unique phenomenon on a number of accounts…realizing [Bach] in terms of what the flute does best… flexibility and fluency of Kat’s flute… Kat’s solo flute pieces… enrapture and illuminate our minds.” By Phil’s Review, Atlanta Audio Club
Flute Soundscapes takes the audience on a journey through different eras of Western classical music aesthetics. The program encompasses pieces by J.S. Bach, C. Debussy, A. Piazzolla, and Acher-Modiano’s original acoustic and electro-acoustic contemporary pieces with video screening and masks. Modiano’s video accompanies the music with a non-narrative colourful collage of images that often refer to social awareness.
Sunday, April 28th @ 1:30pm
Mount Kisco Public Library, 2nd Fl. Community Room, 100 E.Main St. Mount Kisco, NY
Concert dedicated to Peace and to St. Frances Cabrini:
Flute Soundscapes – Baroque to Contemporary
with Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano– Award Winning Fulbright Scholar Flutist and Composer.
Performing solo flute: J.S. Bach, C. Debussy, A. Piazzolla, and Acher-Modiano’s electro-acoustic compositions
at
St. Frances Cabrini Shrine
701 Fort Washington Ave New York, NY 10040
March 22, 2024, at 7pm
Suggested Donations: $20
Jazz WAHI
presents
Happy Hour at 181 Cabrini, New York
http://www.181cabrininewyork.com/
February 10, 2024 at 5-7pm
Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano – Flute & EFX
Mark Kross – Keyboard
Free Admission
Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano – Flute & EFX & Backtracks & Video
Solo Showcase at APAP, at the Morgan Suite, NY Hilton
January 13, 2024 at 11:05pm
Description
The international NYC based award winning flutist/composer, Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano is a multiple-genres sound artist. Her solo showcase highlights her new album NOMAD Imagination – Roots of Love
(Aliud Records.2023). A cutting-edge electro-acoustic contemporary funky Jazz inspired by funky 70s, modern jazz, electronics, rock, visuals, pacifism and more.
“KAT” performs with flute& effects, backtracks, image-collage video screening and masks.
APAP
Association of Performing Arts Professionals
Love Productions presents 2 Great Days of Jazz
at the Hilton Suite
https://www.loveproductionsrecords.com/pat-harris-associates
Allan Harris’s JAZZ SONNETS
Lineup:
Allan Harris – Vocal, Guitar, Song writing, Citing.
Sarah Cion – Piano
Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano – Flute & EFX
Dylan Shamat – Double Bass
Yhair Sala – Percussion
Times:
January 13, 2024 at 12pm and 1:30pm
January 14 at 5:30 Ppm
Harlem After Dark
Presented/hosted by
Love Productions
https://www.loveproductionsrecords.com/pat-harris-associates
Party at Allan & Pat Harris
Showcasing at 6:30pm:
Allan Harris’s JAZZ SONNETS
Lineup:
Allan Harris – Vocal, Guitar, Song writing, Citing.
Sarah Cion – Piano
Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano – Flute & EFX
Dylan Shamat – Double Bass
Yhair Sala – Percussion
Jazz WAHI (Jazz in Washington Heights)
presents:
New Years Eve
Happy Hours at 181 Cabrini New York
http://www.181cabrininewyork.com/
Featuring “KAT” Modiano Duo:
Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano – Flute & EFX
Maksim Perepelica – Double Bass
Admission: Free
https://littlechurch.org/
The Church of the Transfiguration 1 East 29th Street New York, New York 10016
Christmas Mass
December 24, 2023 at 11am
Christmas Music and J.S.Bach pieces
with
Dr Claudia Dumschat – Organist and Choirmaster
Yael Acher KAT Modiano – Flute
Choir of Men & Boys and Girls
Cherub Choir
Multi-Generational Hanukka Party
at Jewish Center in Jackson Heights
Hanukkah Flute Concert with Yael Acher KAT Modiano, award-winning Israeli flutist, composer, and educator.
Dec 10, 2023 at 2:30pm
Yael’s festive solo flute concert is dedicated to world PEACE. Her eclectic interactive program includes favorite Jewish / Israeli Hanukkah songs, songs for Peace, and short beautiful Classical pieces by Debussy, J.S. Bach, and Brahms.
December 6. 2023 at 8pm
Yael Acher ”KAT” Modiano w/ Rob Duguay’s Low Key Trio
Line up:
Yael Acher ”KAT” Modiano – Flute
Rob Duguay – bass
Jordan Piper – Keys
Nadav Snir-Zelniker
Address: 119 E 27th St, New York, NY 10016
Free Admission
InterActive FLUTE SOUNDSCAPES Imagining!
Contemporary Electro-acoustic Flute Soundscapes & Masks
Responding to UNTOLD STORIES
w/ Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano
November 30, 2023 at 6pm
At
Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling
898 St. Nicholas Ave. New York, NY 10032
Jehan Alain’s Messe Modale en septour
November 12, 2023 at 11am
at Solemn Mass at the historic
Church of the Transfiguration / the Little Church Around the Corner
1 East 29th Street
New York, New York 10016
With Yael Acher-Modiano, flute, Organist and Choirmaster Dr Claudia Dumschat and Choir of Men & Boys and Girls.
PAMAR PRESENTS
Latin American Cultural Week in NYC (LACW)
GlamourTango – A celebration of women in tango
OPENING EVENT on Saturday November 11, at 2pm
at St Marks Church in the Bowery
Address: 131 E10 Street, New York, NY 10003
Tickets: Eventbrite GLAMOURTANGO $25
GlamourTango is a unique all female, international, multimedia music and dance
Creator /Music Director : Polly Ferman
See performer on flyer below.
“KAT” MODIANO – Urban Funky Jazz Flute
w/ Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano – FLUTE & Efx & electro-acoustic & masks & visuals
“KAT” Modiano’s multi media electro-acoustic solo concert, featuring tracks from her new album, and more.
Celebrating Album Release: NOMAD Imagination – Roots of Love
More information on CPH Jazz Festival program
Interview on Radio Jazz Copenhagen
Radio Jazz will feature KAT Modiano and her new album NOMAD Imagination- Roots of Love (released on Aliud Records November 2022).
Radio Host: Brian Petro
Listen on: Radio Jazz Copenhagen
Simply Sharing Presents:
Flute Concert and Video Premier – with the presence of Lakha Lama
- Flute Soundscapes- Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano – Flute and Bansuri.
A colorful, meditative solo flute program that includes pieces by Claude Debussy, Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns and Yael Acher-Modiano’s compositions, including also improvisations inspired by the melodies from Mantra for Love and Compassion and Heart Sutra.
- Premiere of new video release by Lakha Lama: ‘Care from the Heart’
100% of the income goes to the association Simply Sharing for the preservation and dissemination of the Lakha Lama’s life’s work in the form of educational material that is shared freely available at www.lakhalama.org
More information: Phendeling Center for Tibetan Buddhism
Kvindestemmer (Women’s Voices)
More Information: FB Event
More Information: Winter Jazz Festival-livejazz
Live Electroacoustic Soundtrack concert to screening of La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc screening at Soundtrack Tel Aviv Film Festival, TLV Cinematheque, Israel.
‘Flute in Film’ – Contemporary, Soundtracks, Bach, and Masks
Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano – Solo Flutist and Composer.
An eclectic program including: Acher-Modiano’s original electro-acoustic and acoustic flute compositions, image-collage video, live contemporary soundtracks to short silent film screening, and pieces by J.S. Bach.
More information
Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano – Flutist and composer and Arin Maisky – Organist and the church’s music director will perform Classical and Contemporary pieces at the historic church in Jaffa – Tel Aviv
In this program Acher-Modiano will explores Contemporary Improvisations / Composition on Motif with focus on themes such as: extended sonorities, sound/noise, tonality/atonality, polyrhythm, primal ritualistic rhythms and sounds, eclectic sources, composition on motifs, and multimedia (screenings of image-collage and clips from soundtracks/film scores).
Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano – Flutist and composer, and
Philip Schmidt-Madsen, organist and church music and choir director.
This program will feature pieces by French composers from the middle of the 1900s, and Acher-Modiano’s solo flute composition inspired by the French modern pieces.
at Støberiet, Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Denmark. Exact date TBA
Funky Urban Jazz and Soundtracks at Neusi’s, CLUBNIGHT, Jazzahead! 2022, in Bremen, Germany.
Live soundtrack concert with Michael screening at German Film Days, at Grand Theater, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Live soundtrack concert with Michael screening at German Film Days, at Grand Theater, Copenhagen, Denmark.
