Pedro Eustache, aka Flute Guy, is a flute/winds/wind synthesist/electronics soloist, as well as a composer, lecturer, educator, researcher.[1] He became known as Flute Guy after his 2022 appearance at the Game Awards when he stole the show playing the music from Xenoblade Chronicles 3.[2][3] He performs woodwinds in the Star Citizen video The Future of Gaming: StarEngine.[4][5]
Other Works
He's a founding member of El Sistema's Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra in Venezuela.[1]
He is the winds featured soloist with Hans Zimmer Live, Game of Thrones-Live Concert Experience & The World of Hans Zimmer since 2017. He held the same position with New-Age super star Yanni from 1995-2006.[1]
He concertized/recorded/toured with personalities and organizations like Paul McCartney, including three songs on Paul's 2018 CD Egypt Station, John Williams, Hans Zimmer, James Newton Jr., Mtro. Gustavo Dudamel, Alex Acuña, Yanni, Anoushka Shankar, John Debney, James Newton Howard, John Powell, Ramin Djawadi, Herb Alpert, Michael Giacchino, Heitor Pereira, Alexandre Desplat, Danny Elfman, Thomas Newman, Shenkar, Googoosh, Riadh Fehri, Shakira. And with symphony orchestras including The Los Angeles Philharmonic, The Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of the Santa Cecilia Academy, the Symphony Orchestra of Italy, The Royal Philharmonic from the UK, the Córdoba Symphony Orchestra from Spain.[1]
He is the first-call world winds soloist in the Los Angeles recording studios scene, with over 150 film, TV & videogame soundtracks, including among others The Passion of the Christ, Munich, Indiana Jones 4, Pirates of the Caribbean 3, 4 and 5, Kung Fu Panda, The Village, Rio, Ice Age 1,2 and 3. How to Train your Dragon, Syriana, The Legend of Tarzan, Pacific Rim, The Great Wall of China, The Hulk, Coco, Jumanji 2, Small Foot, Dune, Avatar the Way of Water, The Creator, Furiosa: A Max Max Saga.[6][1]
He has been a visiting artist, lecturer &/or been a panelist in prestigious international music/art educational institutions, including among others The Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, JAM Music Lab University in Vienna, the Simon Bolivar Conservatory in Caracas, Samford University in Birmingham US, the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia US, the Madrid Music Days in Spain, the UNPHU University of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.[1]
He has two unpublished books: Introduction To Improvisation for the non-improvising Classical Western Performer & Writing Cadenzas in Mozart Style - For Flute (Applicable to other melodic instruments).[1]
He has performed in The Game Awards’ orchestra since 2017 and has been performing on video game soundtracks for much longer.[7]
Early Life
He graduated in Classical flute from two European Conservatories in France, it's in Paris that he discovered Ravi Shankar and Indian music, music from West Africa, Arabic music and Japanese music.[7][1] He took advanced flute studies with Mtro. Aurèle Nicolet in Switzerland.[1]
After returning to Venezuela, he started studying jazz which led him to earning a scholarship in the US to attend the California Institute of the Arts for an for an M.F.A. in Jazz performance. So Eustache, with his wife and daughter, moved to LA. His daughter passed soon after.[7][1]
He studied Hindustani Classical with the 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.[1]
Quote
“So when they put music like this in front of me, I kill, I just kill. Because I know where I came from. I know where I have been rescued from."[7]
Trivia
- His collection of around 600 musical instruments includes many that he designed and built himself. Many of these resulted from wind-instruments acoustics research done with scientists like Dr. John Coltman, and Prof. Peter Hoekje.[1]
External Links
References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 Pedro Eustache Bio, pedroflute.com
- ↑ The Game Awards Orchestra Performs Music from Game Of The Year Nominees | The Game Awards 2022, thegameawards, YouTube, 9 December 2022
- ↑ Great news everyone: Flute guy is returning to this year's Game Awards, vg247.com, Dec. 1, 2023
- ↑ The Future of Gaming: StarEngine (4K), Star Citizen, YouTube, 22 november 2023
- ↑ "you can still hear a very bit of woodwinds performed by the incredible Pedro Eustache.", @pedrocamacho, Twitter, Sep 25, 2024
- ↑ Pedro Eustache, imdb
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Pedro Eustache opens up about video game music and becoming the Flute Guy, theverge.com, Dec 13, 2022