Vijay Raghav Rao was an Indian choreographer, born in 1925 in Chennai, who died in 2011.
Biography
Pandit Vijay Raghav Rao (born Vijaya Raghava Rao; 3 November 1925 – 30 November 2011) was an Indian flutist, composer, choreographer, musicologist, poet and fiction writer.
He was awarded the Padma Shri by Government of India in 1970, and in 1982 the Sangeet Natak Akademi in Creative and Experimental music category, the highest for performing artist conferred by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy for Music, Dance and Drama.
His prominent students include G.S. Sachdev, Ronu Majumdar, and Deepak Ram.
Contemporaries
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