Chetan Joshi is a noted flautist in the Hindustani Classical Music tradition. He was born in Jharia and brought up at Noamundi and Bokaro Steel City. He was trained under Late Acharya Jagadish (Bokaro), Late Pandit Bholanath Prasanna (Allahabad), Late Pandit Raghunath Seth (Mumbai) and Pandit Ajoy Chakravorty (Kolkata). He has been awarded Rajakiya Sanskritik Samman (State honour) by the Government of Jharkhand. 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 is 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 the 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 Hariprasad Chaurasia and Ronu Majumdar. The festival was especially linked with one of UN Sustainable Development Goals and its aim was to propagate world peace.