Ashok Roy

Ashok Roy was born in Dehra Dun, Uttar Pradesh, in 1936. His sarod training began at the age of four. Ali Akbar Khan was Roy's guru. In 1960, Roy won the All India Radio Instrumentalist of the Year competition, sharing first place with Shiv Kumar Sharma. In 1987, Roy moved to Melbourne and taught music at Melbourne University before becoming artistic director of the Australian Institute of Eastern Music in Sydney. Adrian McNeil received intensive sarod training from Roy for more than two decades. Roy died in Sydney on 15 February 2007.