Hindustani classical
Pandit Chetan Joshi
A Delhi-based Hindustani flautist who studied with several teachers, including Bholanath Prasanna and Raghunath Seth.
- Instrument
- Bansuri
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Biography
Life
Chetan Joshi was born in Jharia, in the Dhanbad district of what is now Jharkhand, and grew up in Noamundi and Bokaro Steel City. His father, Bhupendra Joshi, was a tea trader. He studied in Bokaro and Prayagraj.
His training on the flute was not confined to a single household: he learned from Acharya Jagadish in Bokaro, from Pandit Bholanath Prasanna in Allahabad, from Pandit Raghunath Seth in Mumbai, and from Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty in Kolkata.
He began teaching music in schools in 1987 and taught at Delhi Public School from 1988 to 2012, performing widely through those years and afterwards. He has played jugalbandi concerts with santoor, violin, guitar, sitar and sarod players, and appeared at the Rasrang World Flute Festival in New Delhi in 2016 alongside other leading flautists. Among his recognitions are a state cultural honour from the Government of Jharkhand and the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for 2019.
Musical contribution
What they brought to music
Concert flute playing shaped by training in several different teaching lines, with a long record of jugalbandi work.
Lineage & company
Teachers, students and musical connections
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Where the archive's lineage research places Pandit Chetan Joshi, and the teaching links recorded around them inside each tree.
Bansuri concert lineageborn 20th century
Delhi-based flautist trained in several teaching lines.
People
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Teachers and gurus
- Acharya JagadishTeacher
Named among his teachers, in Bokaro.
Chetan Joshi — Wikipedia - Pandit Bholanath PrasannaTeacher
Named among his teachers, in Allahabad.
Chetan Joshi — Wikipedia - Pandit Raghunath SethTeacher
Named among his teachers, in Mumbai.
Chetan Joshi — Wikipedia 
Pandit Ajoy ChakrabartyTeacherNamed among his teachers, in Kolkata.
Chetan Joshi — Wikipedia
Recognition
Honours and recognition
Highest national honour first, then by year.
- 2019Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
- Rajakiya Sanskritik Samman (Government of Jharkhand)
Community
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Sources and image credits
Photograph by Sviculture, 2020 (CC BY-SA 4.0), via Wikimedia Commons
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