Meera Gudipati is a flutist, composer, and educator based in New York City. Driven by a passion for exploring how new music can deepen our understanding of one another, Gudipati enjoys collaborating with composers on new works for the flute including electronics.

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In 2021, Gudipati premiered Panacea, a Concerto for Live-Processed Flute and Wind Ensemble by Grant Luhmann. In her 2024 doctoral recital at CUNY Graduate Center, Gudipati presented her commissioning project including works for solo flute and electronics by Soomin Kim, Grant Luhmann, Aaron Levin, Samantha Wolf, and Benjamin Webster. Gudipati's passion for the outdoors and music lead her to start MuseOut, which seeks to build a more welcoming hiking and new music community through collaborating with composers and performers to perform concerts in nature. 

 

Gudipati currently holds the co-principal flute position with the South Asian Symphony Orchestra. Previously, Gudipati served as co-principal flute with the United States Coast Guard Band and as acting principal flute with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra. An avid educator, Gudipati teaches flute at the Rudolf Steiner School in New York City and has held flute faculty positions at Wesleyan University, Connecticut College, and the National Orchestral Institute & Festival.

 

As a musical ambassador for the United States and India, Gudipati performed in “Spirit of South Asia,” a digital gitanjali (musical offering) by the musicians of the South Asian Symphony Orchestra. As a composer, Gudipati’s creative process centers on her multiculturalism, belonging, and awareness. Her work for wind ensemble, Bhagalu, explores her bilingual heritage and will be released soon on an album by the United States Coast Guard Band. Her commission by Lauren Williams, Ashakiran for Solo English Horn, draws on raag Bhairavi and can be heard on Jacqueline Leclair's album “Music for English Horn Alone”. NYC flutist Leo Sussman commissioned and premiered Gudipati’s flute and electronics piece Javārī Ratios at The John Donald Robb Composers' Symposium.

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Gudipati won 1st prize in numerous national competitions including the Orchestral Audition Competition and Masterclass at the National Flute Association, the 2014 Kentucky Collegiate Flute Competition, and the Young Artist Competition at the 2013 Florida Flute Association Convention.

 

Gudipati graduated with a Master of Music degree from the Yale School of Music and a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Texas at Austin, studying with Ransom Wilson and Marianne Gedigian, respectively. She currently is a doctoral fellow at The City University of New York studying with Tara Helen O’Connor.

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With an enthusiasm for early music, Gudipati held the second traverso position with the Austin Baroque Ensemble and principal traverso with the UT Early Music Ensemble. Gudipati was born in Düsseldorf, Germany and grew up playing recorder, piano, and flute at the Clara-Schumann Musikschule. After moving to the U.S., Gudipati continued studying flute at the Peabody Preparatory with Rachel Choe and at the Colburn School of Performing Arts with Karen Lundgren.