Question: What distinction was awarded to the Indian Carnatic vocalist, musician, multi-instrumentalist and composer when he won the National Award for a Kannada language film based on the life and teachings of the founder of the Tattvavada philosophy, Madhvacharya?

Context articles: School Master (1958 film)
Charanams
Karnataka State Film Award for Best Director
Madhvacharya (film)
Kanaka Dasa
Shimoga Subbanna
Dr. Annavarapu Ramaswamy
M. Balamuralikrishna
M. G. Venkata Raghavan
Miss Leelavathi

School Master (Kannada: ಸ್ಕೂಲ್ ಮಾಸ್ಟರ್ ) is a 1958 Indian Kannada language film, which was simultaneously dubbed as Tamil language film as Engal Kudumbam Perisu (Tamil: எங்கள் குடும்பம் பெரிசு ).
 It was released in 1958.
 It was later remade into various other languages including Telugu, Malayalam and Hindi.
 Movie is a classic film starring Dikki Madhav Rao, Udaykumar, Sivaji Ganesan, Gemini Ganesan and B. Saroja Devi.
 It was the first Kannada film to complete Silver Jubilee Celebration.
Charanams is a world music carnatic jazz band that presents a unique blend of South Indian carnatic music and jazz music.
 Charanams band presents musical compositions of carnatic musician Nivedita ShivRaj.
 These music compositions are based on South Indian Carnatic music with jazz improvisations.
 The compositions do not have any lyrics, but contains carnatic music solfege.
Karnataka State Film Award for Best Director is a state film award of the Indian state of Karnataka given during the annual Karnataka State Film Awards.
 The award honors Kannada language films.This Award presented to the Director of First Best Film award winning film.This award is named after H. L. N. Simha.
The first director of Kannada Cinema who was brought First National Award to Kannada Cinema.
Madhvacharya (1986) is a Kannada language film directed by G. V. Iyer.
 The film is based on the life and teachings of the founder of the Tattvavada philosophy, Madhvacharya.
 Ananthalakshmi Films produced this film and Theatrical Distributor was the distributor of the film.
 This film screened at 11th IFFI panorama.
 It won the National Award for Dr.M. Balamuralikrishna as the Best Music Director.
Kanaka Dasa (Kannada: ಕನಕದಾಸ ) (1509 – 1609) was a poet, philosopher, musician and composer from modern Karnataka.
 He is known for his Kirtanes and Ugabhoga, compositions in the Kannada language for Carnatic music.
 Like other Haridasas, he used simple Kannada language and native metrical forms for his compositions.
Shimoga Subbanna (Kannada: ಶಿವಮೊಗ್ಗ ಸುಬ್ಬಣ್ಣ ; born as G. Subramanya on 14 December 1938) is a Sugama Sangeetha singer and playback singer in the Kannada language.
 He received a national award for singing for the song "Kaadu Kudure Odi Banditta" in the film "Kaadu Kudure".
 He is the first Kannadiga to win National Award for playback singing.
 Apart from being an exemplary singer and musician, he is also an advocate and a notary public.
Dr. Annavarapu Ramaswamy (born 23 March 1926) is an Indian Classical Carnatic Violin Vidwan and Guru, whose musical journey entered into 9th decade.
 He is in the fourth line of direct disciples in Guru Shishya parampara of the Great Musician Saint Thyagaraja and is a disciple of Sri Parupalli Ramakrishnayya Pantulu.
 Both, Dr.M.Balamuralikrishna and him are very close friends, companions, classmates, learned carnatic music under the same guru Sri Parupalli Ramakrishnayya Pantulu.
 They performed many concerts together throughout the world.
 Many stalwarts in carnatic music, wanted and appreciated him as an accompaniment in their concerts in yesteryears.
 He accompanied top ranked legendary stalwart musicians of India, carnatic musicians such as his guru, Sri Parupalli Ramakrishnayya Pantulu,  Dr. Mangalampalli Balamurali Krishna, Sri Arayakudi Ramanuja Iyyengar, Sri Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar, Sri G. N. Balasubramaniam, Sri Semmamgudi Srinivasa Iyyer, T. R. Maralingam, Sri S.Balachandar etc..
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; and Hindustani Musicians - Pandit Vinayakarao Pathvardhan, Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Pandit Jasraj, etc., on many Prestigious National and International venues.
 He came up with his own style of performing solo concerts on Violin & Viola.
 He invented new Ragas & Talams such as Vandana Ragam, SriDurga Ragam and Tinetradi Tala and Vedadi Tala.
 He had written and composed many Varnams and Kritis.
 He is a notable guru, taught many students, who are in successful positions such as Violin Vasu, Flute Phani, V.L.Tulasi Viswanath (carnatic vocalist), Peravali Nanda Kumar (Violinist), etc., For the past 7 to 8 decades, he has been doing free service to the society such as teaching students at free of cost.
 He propagated the magnificence of his performances, teachings, demonstrations and Lectures on Music in countries such as U. S. A, Canada, European Countries (U. K, France etc.) and Asian Countries (Muscat, Bahrain, Dubai, Singapore, Malaysia, Doha, Srilanka, etc.,)
Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna (6 July 1930 – 22 November 2016) was an Indian Carnatic vocalist, musician, multi-instrumentalist, playback singer, composer, and character actor.
 He was awarded the Madras Music Academy's Sangeetha Kalanidhi in 1978.
 He has garnered two National Film Awards (1976, 1987), the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1975, the Padma Vibhushan, India's second-highest civilian honor in 1991, for his contribution towards arts, the Mahatma Gandhi Silver Medal from UNESCO in 1995, the Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government in 2005, the Sangeetha Kalanidhi by Madras Music Academy, and the Sangeetha Kalasikhamani in 1991, by "the Fine Arts Society", Chennai to name a few.
Mysore Govinda Rao Venkata Raghavan (born 14 May 1956) is an Indian Carnatic vocalist, playback singer, composer and actor.
 He was awarded the Rajyotsava Prashasti, the highhest civilian honour of the state of Karnataka, for his contribution towards Carnatic music.
Miss Leelavathi (Kannada: ಮಿಸ್ ಲೀಲಾವತಿ ) is a 1965 Indian Kannada language film directed by M. R. Vittal and written by Korati Srinivasa Rao.
 It stars Jayanthi as the protagonist, along with Udaykumar, K. S. Ashwath, Ramesh and others.
 The film won the National Award for second best film in Kannada.