His crowning glory was being awarded the Golden Key Award and Earnest Award for academic excellence in 20 at Monash. He gave solo concerts while visiting India and worked with Viva and Shubha Mudgal on albums apart from recording for jingles for advertisements such as Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Sony Walkman etc. Raghav has also done affiliated courses from the Berklee College of Music, Boston and Trinity College of London. It was during this time that Raghav toured as a "One-Man Band" to countries in South East Asia including Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia. He studied Music & Composition and Performance with the main instrument, the Saxophone and minor instrument being flute, and did his majors in Jazz at Monash. before proceeding to Monash Conservatory of Music, Melbourne in 2000 to study music. He also formed a band, Canzona, with some friends where they toured all over India and played at key places like the IIT institutions, BITS Pilani etc.
At the age of 15, he was chosen by the government of India as their representative in Russia for a cultural exchange program. He won the Best Drummer Award at the Pepsi Cornucopia contest in Delhi in 1994 besides being adjudged the best keyboard player at the BITS Pilani Festival.
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