Pedro Eustache

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Pedro Eustache

Background information
Born	1959
Origin	Caracas, Venezuela
Occupation(s)	Musicionary
Instrument(s)	600+ woodwind & other musical instruments
Years active	30+
Label(s)	Gynook Productions Inc.
Associated acts	See below
Website	www.pedroflute.com

Pedro Eustache (born 1959), is a creative solo flautist - "World Music" woodwinds-reeds-wind synthesizers and composer who has studied classical music, jazz, & world music (including Indian classical music, and Armenian music). He has more than seven years of symphonic experience and a collection of around 600 instruments from all over the world, many of which having been created, built, designed, and/or modified by himself.

1 History
2 Associated acts
3 Discography
4 References
5 External links

[edit] History

Venezuelan-born Pedro Eustache is a creative multi-directional musician/instrumentalist and composer. His musical language is the direct result of years of both solid studies and professional experience in the classical-European, African-American (Jazz), World Music, Popular, Folklore, and Computer/Electronic music art forms. He was initiated into music by his brother, Professor Michel Eustache, studying later in the Venezuelan National Youth Orchestra. He then graduated from the Hector Berlioz Conservatoire and L'Ècole de Musique D'Asnières in Paris, France, with advanced studies with maestro Aurèle Nicolet in Basel, Switzerland. He also has a M.F.A. in jazz from the California Institute of the Arts, U.S., and extensive studies in other music cultures of the world. These include Hindustani classical music and bansuri (North Indian bamboo flute) with Pandits Ravi Shankar and Hariprasad Chaurasia (Pedro is their only Latin-American disciple); Armenian duduk with maestro Djivan Gasparian, Persian Ney with Professor Houman Pourmehdi; Arabic Ney with maestro Nabil Abdelmoula; Australian didgeridoo with David Hudson; and Japanese Shakuhachi (trad. Japanese bamboo flute) with sensei Mazakazu Yoshizawa, among many others.

He has performed and/or recorded as a featured soloist with the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, L'Orchestre Symphonique Du Bal de Vienne, California Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Simon Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, Venezuela Symphony orchestra, and the Caracas Symphonietta, among many others.

He has also done a large number of studio sessions for movies as a flute/woodwinds instrumentalist --- including being the main world woodwinds soloist for Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ soundscore, written by John Debney.

He was the featured flute, duduk, King bansuri and piccolo soloist in the 2005 Grammy-Award winning Concert For George memorial concert.

He played Middle-Eastern flutes, reeds and Armenian duduk featured in Steven Spielberg's Munich (nominated for both the 2006 Oscars & the 49th. Grammy Awards for 'Best Soundscore'), composed and conducted by Maestro John Williams. He also soloed extensively in Middle-Eastern woodwinds & duduk with the London Symphony Orchestra in the film, The Body.

His world flutes and woodwinds solos are also featured with several artists, including Sir Paul McCartney with the song Jenny Wren (with which Sir Paul is nominated for the 49th Gramy Award as 'Best Pop Vocalist'), and a duet with in his Chaos and Creation in the Backyard single CDs, and Growing Up Falling Down from his Fine Line single CD.

Other recordings, tours and/or performances include jazz flautist/composer James Newton, Persian-diva Googoosh, Armenian composer/keyboardist Ara Gevorgian, Indian young luminary Anoushka Shankar, as well as in several international Christian crusades with evangelist Luis Palau, Pastor Benny Hinn & in various events with his spiritual father, Pastor Jack Hayford.

Eustache was brass section leader (tenor saxophone), for the Inside Job U.S. West-Coast tour for multiple Grammy-winner singer-songwriter Don Henley. He was also house band member for Edward James Olmos' Americanos Concert with Latin Superstars Cachao Lopez, Gloria Estefan, Paquito D'Rivera, José Feliciano, Juan Luis Guerra, Sheila E., among others, held at the Kennedy Center, Washington D.C., for the PBS Presents series.

He is the woodwinds featured soloist with Yanni since 1995, appearing on several of his live music videos Yanni Live at Royal Albert Hall, Tribute, and most recently Yanni Live, The Concert Event.

He has a collection of more than 600 instruments from all over the world, including winds, strings, percussion and electronic/computer-based as well.

Other aspects of artistic creativity include researching, designing/modifying and building one-of-a-kind custom wind intruments (advised by flute-acousticians 'guru' Dr. John Coltman & Peter Hoekje, Ph.D.), as well as heavy involvement in applying powerful new computer-based audio digital technologies (the last two solo CD projects have been produced, recorded, arranged, engineered, and mixed by him in DAW-based systems).

By virtue of the plurality of this artistic endeavor, he holds a unique position in the international performing and recordings studio scenes, being first in demand for many solo artists, & producers, film & TV sound-track composers.