Chetan Joshi is a noted flautist in the

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tradition. He was born in

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and brought up at

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and

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. He was trained under Late Acharya Jagadish (Bokaro), Late Pandit

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(Allahabad), Late Pandit Raghunath Seth (Mumbai) and Pandit

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(Kolkata).

Early life

He was born in

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(now

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). His father Bhupendra Joshi was trader of tea. He completed his matriculation from Ramchndra high school and college from Allahabad Degree College,

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. He completed his graduation from Bokaro College.

Career

He started playing flute as a music teacher from 1987 in Guru Gobind Singh School. Then he was music teacher in Delhi Public School from 1988 to 2012. From 2012, he played flute in different shows from Noida.

Performances

As one of the leading classical instrumentalists from Delhi, Chetan Joshi has performed in various concerts over the last thirty years. He gave his performance along with a Japanese artist for a programme named Venu Naad (sound of flute) in a series of Jugalbandi concerts organised in the first and second week of December 2004 in places like Hazaribagh, Dhanbad, Bokaro, Ranchi, Munger and Kolkata. He has also performed Jugalbandi with Santoor, Violin, Guitar, Sitar, Sarod and Flute artists from various parts of country. His other performances include one at XLRI at Jamshedpur in 2006, at Rabindra Bhawan, Guwahati in 2008 and at IIM Ranchi in 2012. In September 2016 Chetan Joshi performed in the 7th edition of Rasrang World Flute Festival, a five-day long international event held in New Delhi, in which artists from several countries like Italy, Slovakia and Afghanistan participated and where he was able to perform along with other leading flautists of India like

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and Ronu Majumdar. The festival was especially linked with one of UN Sustainable Development Goals and its aim was to propagate world peace. He performed in a special programme organised by Sanskar Bharti at Punjab Kala Bhawan on 8 April 2017.

Awards

He has been awarded with Rajakiya Sanskritik Samman (State honor) by the

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. He has also been awarded Sur Mani, Bismillah Samman, Sangeet Kala Gaurav Award, Kala Ratna Sammaan, Sangam Sammaan and many other awards and accolades. He was awarded

Sangeet Natak Akademi Award Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (IPA: Saṅgīta Nāṭaka Akādamī Puraskāra), also known as the Akademi Puraskar, is an award given by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy of Music, Dance & Drama. It is the highest Indian recognit ...

for the year 2019.

References

Kalidas Samaroha - Ujjain
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