Sagar Anupindi is an oboist and educator based in Kansas City, MO, pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory. Recently, Sagar won the Second Prize in the International Double Reed Society’s Fernand Gillet-Hugo Fox Competition. He has performed as a substitute musician with ensembles across the country, including the Kansas City Symphony, South Dakota Symphony Orchestra, Sioux City Symphony Orchestra, Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra, and Flint Symphony Orchestra.

Sagar is an accomplished chamber musician. He was a founding member of Vanguard Reed Quintet, who were awarded the Silver Medal in the Senior Winds Division of the 2018 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. With Vanguard, Sagar performed at National Sawdust in 2018 and released Red Leaf Collection in 2020, an album of newly commissioned works for reed quintet. Sagar also competed in the Dale & Nancy Briggs Chamber Music Competition in 2018 with his woodwind quintet, Vayu Quintet, and received third prize. Since 2024, Sagar has been a member of the Plaza Winds, a woodwind quintet performing and engaging audiences in Kansas City.

An advocate for contemporary music, Sagar has been involved in over twenty premiere performances, spanning solo and chamber music to works for orchestra and opera. He regularly programs and performs music by living composers and is passionate about uplifting the work of musicians from underrepresented backgrounds. Sagar’s recent performances of contemporary solo and chamber music include works by Chen Yi, Brian Nabors, Reena Esmail, Oscar Navarro, Thea Musgrave, and Viet Cuong.

Sagar holds a Bachelor of Music from the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre, and Dance and a Master of Music from the Eastman School of Music. Sagar’s principal teachers include Nermis Mieses, Nancy Ambrose King, Richard Killmer, and Celeste Johnson.