Pedro Eustache

About

From pedroflute.com:

Venezuelan-born, US citizen is a multidirectional award wining world-class flute/winds/wind synthesist/electronics
soloist; composer, lecturer, educator, researcher, with extensive academic studies and over 40 years of professional
experience.

Mr. Eustache graduated in Classical flute from two European Conservatories [France], advanced flute studies with
Mtro. Aurèle Nicolet [Switzerland]; and a M.F.A. in Jazz performance from California Institute of the Arts, [USA.. He also
has extensive world music studies with iconic masters, like: Hindustani Classical with the legendary late Pndit. Ravi
Shankar & Pndt. Hariprasad Chaurasia; Armenian duduk w/Djivan Gasparyan; Arabic Nay w/Nabil Abdmouleh;
Australian didgeridoo w/David Hudson, among many others.

Pedro has more than seven years of Orchestral Symphonic experience (founder member of El Sistema’s “Simon Bolivar
Symphony Orchestra” (Venezuela).

His collection of around 600 musical instruments [both acoustic,& electronic] includes many uniquely designed/built
by himself. Many of these resulted from wind-instruments acoustics research done with illustrious scientists like the late Dr. John Coltman Ph.D., and Prof. Peter Hoekje Ph.D […]

Pedro Eustache collaborated with Paul McCartney on the 2005 album “Chaos And Creation In The Backyard“, and on the 2018 album “Egypt Station“.

What can I say, it was a once-on-a-lifetime experience… absolutely amazing. What struck me the most was Sir Paul’s genuine, down-to-earth humility, his serious, no-nonsense work ethics, as well as the depth of his musical sensibility.

Pedro Eustache, commenting about his contribution to “Chaos And Creation In The Backyard”, from his own site.

For “Chaos And Creation In The Backyard“, Pedro Eustache collaborated on two songs – one of it being “Jenny Wren“. From an interview with the BBC, September 2, 2005:

He said that, for example, one song, Jenny Wren – which McCartney describes as the “little sister” of the Beatles song Blackbird – was inspired by him seeing a flute player with Ravi Shankar at the Royal Albert Hall.

“I saw this guy on this low, mournful Indian flute. I traced him down through Ravi, because he had a sound that I wanted for the album, and found he was actually a Venezuelan guy called Pedro Eustace and that the flute itself was an Armenian instrument.“

Last updated on January 17, 2021