B.Vijayagopal started learning flute at the tender age of four after displaying prodigious talent in music by being able to sing ragas in any given scale and swaraprastharas in various talas for any composition he heard. His talent was propitiously nurtured by his family deeply steeped in music. His early tutelage started at home from his aunt Smt. G.K. Rajeshwari, a presidential award-winning vocalist, and grandfather Sri G.V.Krishnamoorthy.