Popularly known as "DEBU" , Devrabata Chaudhuri is one of world's most respected and outstanding musician of today. He received his early training from Sh.Panchu Gopal Dutta and later on from the traditional exponent of Sitar legend USTAD MUSHTAQ ALI KHAN of the SENIA GHARANA, a traditional school of Indian Classical Music.

Pandit Debu Chaudhuri is the recipient of many prestigious awards including the civilian Govt. award of "PADMA BHUSHAN" and the National "SANGEET NATAK ACADEMY AWARD" for his excellence and contribution in the field of music. He has been recently awarded the Hony. D.Litt Degree from the only music University of Asia "Indira Kala Sangeet Viswavidyalaya " Khairagarh , for his achievment and contribution in the field of Music in India and abroad both as a performer and as a scholar . He received his early training from the late Panchu Gopal Datta for some time and later for 38 years from the senior most traditional exponent of SITAR MAESTRO SANGEET ACHARYA USTAD MUSHTAQ ALI KHAN of the "SENIA GHARANA", the traditional school of Indian Classical Music named after the great MIAN TANSEN, the father of Indian Music

This is Panditji's 54th year of broadcasting in the National network All India Radio and 40th year of teaching at the University of Delhi , Faculty of Music and Fine Arts. His first National Programme was featured in the year 1963 in the All India Radio and became the TOP CLASS ( graded by the National Net Work AIR ) artiste in the 1971 . After his retirement from the University of Delhi , Pandit Chaudhuri has started a unique project to document the rare instrumental compositions with the support of traditional compositions of Dhrupad and Khayal on the same Raga . This project is so dear to his heart that his only ambition is to complete this project , so that the future generation will have a better information and knowledge to perform with confidence .

Dr. Chaudhuri’s creativity in music and his academic acumen is widely known all over the World . As a creator of 8 new Ragas, authoring three book on Indian Music, presenting several papers in various seminars all over India and abroad , guiding successfully 33 Ph.D scholars , having a special project of recording 24 CD’s for 24 hours of the day in USA , delivering 87 lectures and performing 27 concerts in 67 days in the Festival of India in Sweden, officially sponsored by the Govt of India in the year 1988 , being the Chief Advisor to the introduction of Indian Classical Music in UK and performing all over the World for more than 70 time makes his position in the field a special one which is itself an achievement indeed . As the founder Chairperson of the Delhi University Culture Council and as the former Dean and Head of the Faculty of Music and Fine Arts, Dr.Chaudhuri’s contribution in the field of education and performance places him in a highly respectable place in the domain of music all over the World.