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Prelude and Syrinx at Copenhagen Summer Dance Festival
Johanne Sebastian Bach’s “Prelude,” from the Cello suite nr 1 in G major, BWV 1007, and Claude Debussy’s solo flute pieces “Syrinx.”
Date of (video) creation:
August 6 and 7, 2013
Performance Location:
Police Headquarters’ Yard, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Performance Dates:
August 6 and 7, 2013
Collaborators:
At Copenhagen Summer Dance
Dancers from Danish Dance Theatre,
Choreography by Tim Rushton.
Earlier collaboration with the choreographer Tim Rushton and Danish Dance Theatre in 2003, on music for dance performance
Medium:
YouTube video viewing cue: 00:00min- 07:08min
Duration: 07:08min
“Powerful pulse in the Police Headquarters’ Yard
Danish Dance Theater dancers had never flew threw the air as effortlessly as in this year’s Copenhagen summer Dance between the Pillars.
Copenhagen Summer Dance 2013 offers eight short pieces of choreography and a bold, daring Bach –solo by the flutist Yael Acher, which initiates the spatial body energy in the beautiful pillar-yard, with her crispy tones and her androgynous jacket suit movements…”
Newspaper publication:
INFORMATION, August 8h, 2013, Copenhagen, Denmark
By Anne Middelboe Christensen
Genre: Classical and Contemporary Electro-acoustic
Artist: Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano: composition, flute and electronic tracks.
Record label: CENTAUR RECORDS Inc. CRC 3830
Release on: October 2nd, 2020
Album program: J.S. Bach’s Cello Suite no. 1 in G major (tracks # 1-6)
Debussy’s Syrinx for flute (track #10).
Acher-Modiano’s electro-acoustic and acoustic contemporary pieces (tracks # 7-9, 11, 12-18, and #19)
Total Time: 65:56 min
Recorded at: Engholm Church, Allerød, Denmark, September 5th, 2019 -February 5th, 2020.
Sound engineers: mixed and mastered by Michael Norman. Mastering and artistic directions for J.S.Bach by Viggo Mangor.
Production: Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano.
Collaborators on CD recording:
Sound engineer:
Michael Norman
Viggo Mangor
Piazzolla’s Etude w/ Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano @ solo benefit concert for Dominican Women’s Development Center
Tango Etude Nr. 3 for Solo Flute by Astor Piazzolla
Date video Creation: June 4, 2017
Performance Location:
Church of the Intercession, New York City, USA
intercessionnyc
Duration: 03:46min
Acher-Modiano’s solo Flute benefit concert for Dominican Women’s Development Center, in collaboration with Rosita M. Romero, MSW, Executive Director of DWDC
Dominican Women’s Development Center – Empowering All Women and their families today, for a better tomorrow
Genre: Classical and Contemporary Electro-acoustic
Artist: Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano: composition, flute and electronic tracks.
Record label: CENTAUR RECORDS Inc. CRC 3830
Release on: October 2nd, 2020
Album program: J.S. Bach’s Cello Suite no. 1 in G major (tracks # 1-6)
Debussy’s Syrinx for flute (track #10).
Acher-Modiano’s electro-acoustic and acoustic contemporary pieces (tracks # 7-9, 11, 12-18, and #19)
Total Time: 65:56 min
Recorded at: Engholm Church, Allerød, Denmark, September 5th, 2019 -February 5th, 2020.
Sound engineers: mixed and mastered by Michael Norman.
(99+) Michael Norman Sørensen
Mastering and artistic directions for J.S.Bach by Viggo Mangor:
Production: Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano.
“[B]eautiful sonority and effortless technique.”
Publication: Helsingør Dagblad
Helsingør Dagblad → Seneste nyt | helsingordagblad.dk
Date: September 1, 2005
Article written by Grethe Jørgensen.
Courrant, Sarabande, and Bourreé anglaise from J.S. Bach Flute Partita w/ Yael Acher-Modiano
Music performed:
From J.S. Bach Partita for Solo Flute in A minor, BWV 1013: Courrant, Sarabande, and Bourreé anglaise
Date of video Creation:
June 10th, 2018
Performance Location:
Crypt at Church of the Intercession, New York City, USA
Performance Date: June 10th, 2018
Duration: 10:04min
Church of the Intercession: the late William Randolph Jr. Director of Music and Organist
The Rev. Rhonda Rubinson, Priest in Charge.
Album title: “Humanity is like an ocean”- Flute Soundscapes
Genre: Classical and Contemporary Electro-acoustic
Artist: Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano: composition, flute and electronic tracks.
Record label: CENTAUR RECORDS Inc. CRC 3830
Release on: October 2nd, 2020
Album program: J.S. Bach’s Cello Suite no. 1 in G major (tracks # 1-6)
Debussy’s Syrinx for flute (track #10).
Acher-Modiano’s electro-acoustic and acoustic contemporary pieces (tracks # 7-9, 11, 12-18, and #19)
Total Time: 65:56 min
Recorded at: Engholm Church, Allerød, Denmark, September 5th, 2019 -February 5th, 2020.
Sound engineers: mixed and mastered by Michael Norman. Mastering and artistic directions for J.S.Bach by Viggo Mangor.
Production: Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano.
“Yael Acher a.k.a ’KAT’ Modiano is a unique phenomenon on a number of accounts…realizing [Bach] in terms of what the flute does best…greater flexibility and fluency of Kat’s flute….”
By Phil’s Review p. 7-8
from Atlanta Audio Club, November 2020
For full review:
www.atlantaaudioclub.org
Click on Classical Reviews, and then scroll down and click on November Classical Reviews.
Hindemith’s Acht Stücke Solo Flute w/ Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano
Genre: Classical and Contemporary Electro-acoustic
Artist: Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano: composition, flute and electronic tracks.
Record label: Capstone Records CPS-8768,
Release on: May 2006, in New York City and globally. (CDs and online platforms)
Album Program: Pieces composed by: Paul Hindemith and Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano
P. Hindemith’s Acht Stücke (tracks #9-16), and Acher-Modiano’s electro-acoustic and acoustic contemporary pieces (tracks #1-8 and #17-21)
Total Time: 51:37 min
Recorded at Paroise Catholiqe-Roman de Granges, Valaise, Switzerland, on June 8th, 9th, 2004.
Sound engineering: mix and mastering by George Vassilev.
Production: Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano.
“Temperament and Powerful Energy at Østerlars Church
… The temperament and energy, with perfect technique came forth clearly in Hindemith’s Acht Stuche. It continues in J.S. Bach’s a minor partita. Seldom is a Baroque piece played with such a deep and clear expression. And with a legendary elegance!”
Bornholm Times, a Danish daily newspaper in Bornholm
Date: August 6, 1997 Article written by: Pol. Nyheder fra Bornholm (tidende.dk)
