Debasish Chaudhury

Debasish is one of the most promising and acclaimed tabla players from Kolkata, India currently based in Los Angeles, USA. He began learning tabla from the age of five from the late Pandit Nanku Maharaj of Benaras and subsequently from late Pandit Kanai Dutta of the Farukkabad gharana. For more than thirty years, Debasish has been learning tabla under the tutelage of Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri. Debasish is a graded All India Radio artist and has a diploma in tabla - "Sangeet Pravakar". He has performed in many concerts in India and in the United States, including tabla solos, percussion ensembles, and accompanied several major instrumentalists and vocalists (www.debasishchaudhuri.com)