Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri

Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri (born 30 March 1945), is an Indian tabla player and teacher belonging to the Lucknow gharana of Hindustani classical music. He has performed as a soloist and accompanied several musicians of Indian classical music, including, Pandit Ravi Shankar, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, Ustad Vilayat Khan, Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Nikhil Banerjee, Bhimsen Joshi, Pandit Jasraj, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Ken Zuckerman and many more. He has served as Director of Percussion at the Ali Akbar College of Music in California since 1981 and as Director of North Indian Percussion Studies at the California Institute of the Arts since 1991.