Pedro Eustache
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| Pedro Eustache | |
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| Born | August 18, 1959 |
| Origin | Caracas, Venezuela |
| Genre(s) | Eclectic |
| Occupation(s) | Musician |
| Instrument(s) | Woodwinds |
| Label(s) | Gynook |
| Website | www.pedroflute.com |
Pedro Eustache (born August 18, 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.
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[edit] Biography
Venezuelan-born Pedro Eustache is a world-class, award winning 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 Gasparyan, Persian Ney with Professor Houman Pourmehdi; Arabic Ney with maestro Nabil Abdelmouleh; Australian didgeridoo with David Hudson; the Chinese Xiao (trad. Chinese bamboo flute) and Japanese Shakuhachi with the late 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, Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar [principal solo flute ‘chair’ for three years], , London Symphony Orchestra, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Venezuela Symphony Orchestra [first flute chair for two years], and the Caracas Symphonietta [founder & principal solo flute ‘chair’ for two years], among many others.
As a studio musician, Mr. Eustache has become the first-call world-woodwinds soloist ’de facto’ for the recording studios scene in L.A., having 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 won the 2007 Film & TV Music Award for Best Instrumental Performance by a Soloist in a Film or Television Score category for his work in Hans Zimmer's Pirates of the Caribbean 3.
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.
Pedro is also featured prominently in computer games' soundtracks World Of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, a multiplayer title with over 9 million subscribers worldwide (with composers Russell Brower & Derek Duke), and Sony's "Lair" (by composer John Debney).
Other recordings, tours and/or performances include jazz flautist/composer extraordinaire 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 has been the woodwinds featured soloist with Yanni since 1995, most recently during the 2003-2004 Ethnicity and 2005 Yanni Live! tours, and appears on several of his live music videos including Yanni Live at Royal Albert Hall, Tribute, and Yanni Live! The Concert Event.
He has a collection of around 600 instruments from all over the world, including winds, strings, percussion and electronic (analogue & digital) & DAW/computer-based.
As an educator, Mr. Eustache has taught Classical western flute in the Venezuelan National Youth Symphony's Conservatory, the Children's Orchestra Conservatory; Jazz flute in 1993-95 at the California Institute of the Arts, & more recently [in 2008], in a renewed connection with his native country, 'Introduction to Music Technology', 'Improvisation for Non-Improvisers' Parts I & II & 'World Music I: Introduction to The Classical Music of North India' [extension courses] at the Instituto Universitario de Estudios Musicales IUDEM, as well as flute master classes at the FESNOJIV headquarter building in Caracas, Venezuela.
He is currently working on several books, including "Introduction to Western Tonal Improvisation For the Non-Improvising Performer", "A Practical Approach to Acquiring-Developing Creative and Technical Mozartian Language in the Flute (and other instruments)”, both as part of the “Tonal Western Classical Music Improvisation" Series; "Some of My World Woodwind Instruments", and "The Flute Book: a Holistic Approach to Flute Instruction", a major multidirectional, multidimentional & multicultural piece of encyclopedic proportions (almost 30 years on the making).
Other aspects of artistic creativity include researching, designing/modifying and building one-of-a-kind custom wind instruments (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 recording studio scenes, being first in demand for many solo artists, producers, film & TV soundtrack composers.
[edit] Associated acts
Additional examples of artists with whom Pedro Eustache has performed/toured with and/or recorded woodwind instruments: [1]
[edit] Discography
As a Soloist:
- Hymns Of Yesterday & Today (2007)
- Global Mvission (2004)
- The Giant Sleeps (1995)
- Strive for Higher Realities (1993)
[edit] References
- Pedro Eustache at Allmusic
- Pedro Eustache at the Internet Movie Database
- Bio at Lian Records
- Bio at Yanni.com
- Bio at BBC News, TheWorld.org
- Profile at Reflections an Unofficial Yanni fan page
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