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	My Mother went to heaven on Dec. 19th 2006... please, read the attached pdf letter below... My Mother...pdf
	‘Nations 2 Nations”, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, [Nov-Dec 2006]... a reveling multicultural event

	Pedro's solo-feature in Pastor Jack Hayford's '06 Autumn Leaders' Conference... Pedro Eustache - "When I Survey The Wondrous Cross" @ TCOTW
	Other concerts: With Googosh [Vancouver, Toronto, Kodak Theater LA., Sn José], w/Maestro Ardeshir Rohany, Christmas Concerts @ TCOTWs, Japan Little Tokyo Church...
	Ministring with Pastor Benny Hinn in Buenos Aires, Argentina, [60.000 people in the ‘Velez’ Stadium]

	Films /TV Movies: ‘Blood Diamond’ [2006], ”Miami Vice”, “Ant Bully”, “The Jesus Movie’ For Women”, “The Path to 9-11”... Other recordings: Anouska Shankar's latest solo cross-over CD [with Karsh Kale]... another very impressive piece of work on the making...
	Master class w/Ravi-ji [Raga Desh…]
	Festival of Cartage, Tunisia, [July 2006] An amazing event in this most beautiful North-African Country ...

	EASTER 2006 CELEBRATION Apr. 14th, 15th & 17th. 2006
	Pedro will be ministering in Hawaii, at the New Hope Christian Fellowship Church Oahu, Honolulu. "I will be sharing with some of the instruments I used in the movie 'The Passion of the Christ'... They are expecting over 20,000 during the weekend... Please pray for me, that God can use me for His glory, & impact souls in the name of The One that died at the cross for us all" http://www.enewhope.org/news/2006/april/07/easter/



	Interview in NPR - BBC News "The World" Global Hit segment: 'The Duduk' Yours truly is interviewed/featured by BBC The World's Adeline Sire... Read the whole interview: http://www.theworld.org/globalhits/2006/04/03.shtml
	Listen to the mp3
	[8':27'' mins, 7.8 megs]


	Indian Film Festival Arohi Ensemble Hollywood Palladium, Wednesday, April 19th perform for the Lifetime Achievment Award Ceremony for Pt. Ravi Shankar Paul Livingstone ~ sitar, Pedro Eustache ~ bansuri Barry Phillips ~ cello A special performance of Panditji's Raga Tilak Shyam will follow the award ceremony presented by the LA Philharmonic (following the opening night film feature Deepa Mehta's 'Water' at the ArcLight Cimena) On March 24th tickets go on sale! ArcLight Cinemas Indian Film Festival

	New Movie: Blockbuster "Ice Age 2: The Meltdown"

	Music by the amazing composer John Powel, I played --to name a few-- Slovakian Fujara, King Bansuris [custom Indian bamboo flutes], SouthAmerican Toyos [giant pan pipes], Egyptian Kawalas [trad. Mid-Eastern shepherds cane flute], 'Air' flutes, & even STRAWS!!...

	Concert with the Lian Ensemble: A Spring Equinox Offering Peace, unity, and love.

	Lian Ensemble, Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri & Djivan Gasparyan DATE: Sunday, March 19, 2006 TIME: 7:30 PM - VENUE: Wilshire Ebell Theatre • Djivan Gasparyan, Duduk • Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri: Tabla • David Johnson, marimba • Miroslav Tadic, Guitar • Pedro Eustache, Flute, Duduk, Bansuri. Ney • Randy Gloss, Percussion • Bahram Bajelan, Vocal • Pirayeh Pourafar, Tar • Mahshid Mirzadeh, Santur • Ivan Johnson, Bass • Houman Pourmehdi, Tonbak, Daf, Vocal, Ney

	Pedro is a guest soloist for Evangelist Pastor Benny Hinn: http://www.bennyhinn.org/default.cfm

	Went to Seoul Korea in --with a three days notice-- to the international crusade with Pastor Benny... An absolutely amazing experience! After a 13hrs. flight into Korea, and a 2:15 hrs of rush-hour traffic in Seoul, to go DIRECTLY to the Seoul Olympic Gymnasium to go to the platform to perform in front of an audience of 20.000 [including the pastor of the biggest church in the planet, Dr. David Yonggi Cho], WITHOUT EVEN A SOUND CHECK!!
	God is soooo good!! God willing, I will be joining him again to: Sydney, Australia: International Crusade June 23-24, 2006 http://www.bennyhinn.org/events/eventdetails.cfm?eid=598 International Crusade: Kobe, Japan July 15-17, 2006 http://www.bennyhinn.org/events/eventdetails.cfm?eid=599 International Crusade: Buenos Aires, Argentina October 27-28, 2006 7:00 PM Nightly http://www.bennyhinn.org/events/eventdetails.cfm?eid=604

	In Concert w/Persian Diva Pop singer Googoosh & Mehrdab: Dallas, TX, Feb 2006


	Worshipping God @ Pastors Jack & Anna Hayford's 50th Ministry Anniversary Event Feb 10 - 2006 http://www.jackhayford.org

	The Church On The Way's founder Pastor Jack & Pastora Anna have been an amazing direct & live-changing blessing to my wife Sara & I... At the end of that event I met pastor Benny Hinn...

	With my friend Vik Momjian's Ararat Music @ The Jan. 2006 NAMM Show: www.araratmusiconline.com The best available Armenian wind instruments: Duduks, Shvees, B'Louls & reeds for the Duduk...

	www.araratmusiconline.com

	Last 2005 "What's New"
	Recording Film soundtracks: In Stephen Spielberg's master piece "Munich", with maestro John Williams composer.



	Pedro performed both as part of the 85 piece orchestra & solo [on mostly middle eastern wind instruments: Armenian Duduk, Egytptian Kawala, custom Alto Persian Ney, custom Indian 'King' Bansuri, etc...] Again, an extraordinary experience! In the Sony studios with two icons...




	In James Newton Howard's score for Peter Jackson's "King Kong" [solo bamboo flute in the 'It's Beautiful' scene...]


	"Syriana"

	With my teacher, maestro Djivan Gasparian, composer: Alexandre Desplat & Armen Ksajikian

Benefit for the "Kathrina" victims at the Chrystal Cathedral: John Debney's "Symphony of the Passion of the Christ" is premiered in the U.S. 9-11-2006



At the horror of hurricane Katrina's disaster, we're performing a benefit concert "The Symphony Of "The Passion of The Christ" [Composed & conducted by John Debney, with LA-based soloists, orchestra & choirs]-- this coming Sun. [9/11, mind you!] @ The Crystal Cathedral, Garden Grove, CA @ 8PM. Admission is free... all proceeds to go to the hurricane relief...


Pedro plays in Sir Paul McCartney’s latest CD Pedro played in two songs of Sir Paul McCartney's newest CDs: “Jenny Wren” (in the full CD “Chaos And Creation In The Back Yard”, to be released on Sep. 12 2005), and “Growing Up, Falling Down” (in the CD-Single “Fine Line”). “What can I say”, comments Pedro, “it was a once-on-a-lifetime experience… absolutely amazing” Having spent a whole day recording with the pop icon in a known LA-based music recording studio, Pedro said: "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” He sees this as “a blessing beyond my wildest dreams”… ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In the 2 September 2005 BBC News World Edition Sir Paul McCartney talks about his newest CD… Sir Paul McCartney has spoken about some of his songwriting secrets ahead of the release of his latest album, Chaos And Creation In The Back Yard. The album is Sir Paul's 20th studio recording since he left The Beatles… "You just write a few songs, and the mood you're in, and the time and space you're in, governs that." 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 Eustache and that the flute itself was an Armenian instrument.”… For the complete article go to: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4208132.stm (pdf)

Pedro plays in Sir Paul McCartney’s latest CD

Pedro played in two songs of Sir Paul McCartney's newest CDs: “Jenny Wren” (in the full CD “Chaos And Creation In The Back Yard”, to be released on Sep. 12 2005), and “Growing Up, Falling Down” (in the CD-Single “Fine Line”).

“What can I say”, comments Pedro, “it was a once-on-a-lifetime experience… absolutely amazing”

Having spent a whole day recording with the pop icon in a known LA-based music recording studio, Pedro said: "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”

He sees this as “a blessing beyond my wildest dreams”…

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In the 2 September 2005 BBC News World Edition Sir Paul McCartney talks about his newest CD…

Sir Paul McCartney has spoken about some of his songwriting secrets ahead of the release of his latest album, Chaos And Creation In The Back Yard.

The album is Sir Paul's 20th studio recording since he left The Beatles…

"You just write a few songs, and the mood you're in, and the time and space you're in, governs that."

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 Eustache and that the flute itself was an Armenian instrument.”…

For the complete article go to: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4208132.stm (pdf)


Pedro plays Indian Bansuri, Armenian Duduk, & more in "Rise" – Anoushka Shankar's first cross-over landmark album [to be released on September 27th.]
	…“ ‘Prayer In Passing,’ which opens Rise… features Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, a renowned Indian slide guitarist, providing melodic direction alongside the flamenco-style piano of Ricardo Miño, Pedro Eustache’s bansuri flute and duduk (a Middle Eastern wind instrument) and Anoushka’s sitar”… For complete track notes, go to: http://www.anoushkashankar.com/aboutrise.html More personal comments coming soon…

Pedro plays Indian Bansuri, Armenian Duduk, & more in
"Rise" – Anoushka Shankar's first cross-over landmark album
[to be released on September 27th.]

…“ ‘Prayer In Passing,’ which opens Rise… features Vishwa Mohan Bhatt,
a renowned Indian slide guitarist, providing melodic direction
alongside the flamenco-style piano of Ricardo Miño, Pedro Eustache’s
bansuri flute and duduk (a Middle Eastern wind instrument) and
Anoushka’s sitar”…

For complete track notes, go to:
http://www.anoushkashankar.com/aboutrise.html

More personal comments coming soon…

	Pedro is one of the featured soloists for the World Expo 2005 in Nagoya, Aichi, JAPAN MEITETSU LEEO CONCERT "POWER OF DREAMS" August 27 and 28, 2005
With extraordinary community orchestra "LEEO" --Litle world Ethnic and Earth Orchestra-- an approx. 80-piece ensemble... Alongside composer/conductor Daisaku Kume, icon-actress Tomoe Shinohara, Celtic fiddler Christopher Stout, vocalist Hayley Westenra, Chinese Er-hu Weiwei Wuu, Indonesian Angklung ensemble Gentra Seba, drummer Kiyohiko Semba, vocalist Joey Ayala, power-house African drummers Latyr Sy & Africa Sunuxelcom, among others...

Pedro is one of the featured soloists for the World Expo 2005 in Nagoya, Aichi, JAPAN

MEITETSU LEEO CONCERT "POWER OF DREAMS"

August 27 and 28, 2005

With extraordinary community orchestra "LEEO" --Litle world Ethnic and Earth Orchestra-- an approx. 80-piece ensemble... Alongside composer/conductor Daisaku Kume, icon-actress Tomoe Shinohara, Celtic fiddler Christopher Stout, vocalist Hayley Westenra, Chinese Er-hu Weiwei Wuu, Indonesian Angklung ensemble Gentra Seba, drummer Kiyohiko Semba, vocalist Joey Ayala, power-house African drummers Latyr Sy & Africa Sunuxelcom, among others...

	Pedro goes to Italy as a featured soloist in John Debney's Passion of the Christ Symphony:

Passion of the Christ Symphony: A new symphony by John Debney based on
his score for the film The Passion of the Christ will be premiered by
the Santa Cecilia Orchestra in Rome on July 6-2005.

Under Debney's direction, the performance features a 95-piece orchestra,
86-piece choir, and featured soloists, including Pedro
performing in Armenian Duduk, his one-of-a-kind 'King Bansuri' [mod.
Indian bamboo flute], Armenian Shvee, and Arabic Nay...

	Pedro will be performing this Sun --March, 13th-2005--with John Debney's "The Passion of The Christ Ensemble" at the Crystal Cathedral.

	For "The Hour of Power" TV broadcasting times & schedules go to : http://www.hourofpower.org/calendar/unitedstates.html

"Concert For George" --in which Pedro performed & assisted his teacher Pndt. Ravi Shankar-- wins the 2005 Grammy for "Long Musical Video"...

Two Film-soundtracks in which Pedro performed creatively in --"The Passion of the Christ" & "The Village"--are nominated as 'Best Film Soundtrack' for the 2005 Oscars...

Yanni Live Tour - Winter 2004-2005

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