The President, Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil presenting the Padma Bhushan Award to Shri M.S. Gopalakrishnan, at an Investiture Ceremony-II, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on April 04, 2012
M.S. Gopalakrishnan, a.k.a. MSG, (10 June 1931 – 3 January 2013) was a violinist in the field of Carnatic music. He is commonly grouped with Lalgudi Jayaraman and T.N.Krishnan as part of the violin-trinity of Carnatic Music. He was awarded the Madras Music Academy's Sangeetha Kalanidhi in 1997. He was a recipient of the Padma Bhushan, Padma Shri, Kalaimamani, Sangeetha Kalanidhi and Sangeet Natak Akademi awards.