Sagar Anupindi is an oboist and educator based in Kansas City, MO. He is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. 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. Sagar is an advocate for contemporary music, regularly commissioning, programming, and performing music by living composers. With Vanguard, he released Red Leaf Collection in 2020, an album of six newly commissioned works for reed quintet. Sagar holds a Bachelor of Music from the University of Michigan and a Master of Music from the Eastman School of Music. His principal teachers include Nermis Mieses, Nancy Ambrose King, Richard Killmer, and Celeste Johnson.