Pedro Eustache (born August 18, 1959) is a Venezuelan flutist, reed player, woodwind player, composer, instrument maker, and collector.
Education
Eustache studied first in Venezuela under Michel Eustache (his brother), Ernesto Santini, Antonio Jose Naranjo and Glenn Egner while he was a member of José Antonio Abreu's "Venezuelan Youth National Orchestra" (currently known as El Sistema). Upon graduation, he received a scholarship from the Venezuelan government to study in Europe at the Hector Berlioz Conservatoire and L'Ècole de Musique d'Asnières, with Raymond Guiot and Pierre-Yves Artaud respectively, with advanced studies with Aurèle Nicolet in Basel, Switzerland. He also has a M.F.A. in jazz from the California Institute of the Arts, U.S.
Career
In February 2009, Eustache premiered his composition "Suite Concertante for World Woodwinds & Symphony Orchestra". Eustache performed on 21 solo woodwind instruments under the baton of his fellow-countryman Gustavo Dudamel with his "Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar" in Caracas, Venezuela.
Eustache performed a "Multidirectional Flute" solo concert at the Conservatoire National Supérieure de Musique et Danse de Paris-France. He was the opening soloist at the third International Spanish Flute Convention "Gala concert" in Seville 2014.
Eustache was a featured soloist with the wind ensemble of Samford University, under the baton of soloist and conductor Demondrae Thurman, Birmingham Alabama, Oct. 2014. In 2008 and 2015 he gave solo concerts in Beirut, Lebanon at the "Palais de L'UNESCO" under the aegis of the Middle Eastern Bible Society [Lebanon], directed by Dr. Michel Bassous. He was also one of the guest's soloists invited by the Armenian government and Garik Israelian for the six hour long '80 years Anniversary Tribute-Concert' in Yerevan, Armenia.
He has also 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.
Film scores
Eustache has often provided solo woodwind for recording sessions in Los Angeles, California. He has done 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 soundtrack, written by John Debney.
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: At World's End.[citation needed]
He played Middle-Eastern flutes, reeds, and Armenian duduk featured in Steven Spielberg's Munich (nominated for both the 2006 Oscars and the 49th Grammy Awards for "Best Soundtrack"), composed and conducted by John Williams, as well as King Kenacho & Bs. Persian Ney in "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull". He also soloed extensively in Middle-Eastern woodwinds & duduk with the London Symphony Orchestra for the film, The Body. He played the Chinese flute dizi solo for Oogway Ascends from Kung Fu Panda in Hans Zimmer Live.
He worked with Hans Zimmer on the woodwind's music for the film Dune in 2021, as well as its sequel Dune: Part Two in 2024.
Collaborations
Eustache's world flutes and woodwinds solos are featured on Paul McCartney's songs "Jenny Wren", and "Growing Up Falling Down" which appears on the single Fine Line. For ten years, he was the principal flute of Yanni Orchestra. He later performed on McCartney's 2018 album, Egypt Station. He was a featured soloist in the 2005 Grammy-award winner "Concert For George".
He collaborated on 2014 Persian traditional music album Beyond Any Form. . User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
