Sagar Anupindi

Sagar Anupindi is an award-winning oboist and chamber musician based in Kansas City, MO. In 2025, Sagar won the Second Prize at the International Double Reed Society’s Fernand Gillet-Hugo Fox International Competition. As of the 2026–2027 season, Sagar holds positions in the Sioux City Symphony Orchestra as Second Oboe & English Horn and in the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra as Third Oboe & English Horn. Additionally, he maintains an active schedule as a freelance musician, performing with ensembles across the country, including the Kansas City Symphony, Wichita 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 was 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, the Graduate Fellowship Woodwind Quintet of the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory.

An advocate for contemporary music, Sagar regularly programs and performs music by living composers, spanning solo and chamber music to works for orchestra and opera. His recent performances of contemporary solo and chamber music include works by Karalyn Schubring, Gala Flagello, Valerie Coleman, Marc Mellits, Nina Shekhar, Chen Yi, Brian Nabors, Reena Esmail, Oscar Navarro, Thea Musgrave, and Viet Cuong. In 2026, Sagar joined a consortium of oboists to commission a new work for oboe and piano by Gala Flagello, to be premiered in the 2026–2027 season.

Sagar is presently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts at the University of Missouri, Kansas City Conservatory. Originally from Ann Arbor, MI, 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.