Amit Chaudhuri is a novelist, poet, and critic. He has won several prizes for his fiction, including the Commonwealth Writers Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, and the Government of India’s Sahitya Akademi Award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and is Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia. He is a trained and critically acclaimed singer in the North Indian classical tradition. He has performed all over the world as an Indian classical music singer, and HMV India released two recordings by him in this genre. Of his classical performances, the novelist Vikram Seth has said, "There is a sense of calm, a simplicity, an inwardness to his singing which deeply appeals to me."

In 2004, he conceptualised a project in experimental music, ‘This is Not Fusion'. After the debut performance of this music in the UK at London's legendary jazz club, the Vortex, David Mossman, founder of the Vortex, said: 'I’ve been working with everyone in jazz for the last twenty years, from Nigel Kennedy to Jamie Cullum. Amit Chaudhuri’s music is one of the most important projects I’ve heard'. His first CD of experimental music, This Is Not Fusion, was released in India by Times Music and in Britain on the award-winning independent jazz label, Babel Label. His second CD, Found Music, came out in October 2010 from EMI in India and Babel in the UK. It was an allaboutjazz.com Editor’s Choice of 2010.

He has been a featured artiste on flagship culture programmes on television and radio in the UK, including the Review Show (BBC 2), Late Junction (Radio 3), and Loose Ends (Radio 4). His version of ‘Summertime’ was featured on the BBC 4 television documentary, Gershwin’s Summertime: the Song that Conquered the World, alongside classic versions by Billie Holiday, Janis Joplin, Mahalia Jackson, Miles Davis and Ella Fitzgerald.

He has performed extensively in Paris, New York, Berlin, and London, culminating in a set at Queen Elizabeth Hall, the South Bank Centre, London, as part of Paul Muldoon’s Against the Grain, the closing event of the London Review of Books’ 40th anniversary celebrations.

The Amit Chaudhuri Band features:

Prasenjit Ghosal - Guitar

Sushen Saha - Keyboard

Ashok Mukherjee - Tabla