Meera Gudipati won the co-principal flute position with the Coast Guard Band in 2017, having previously been acting principal flute with the New Haven Symphony from 2015 to 2017, and maintains an active freelancing career. Gudipati holds an M M from the Yale School of Music and a B M from the University of Texas at Austin. She studied with Ransom Wilson and Marianne Gedigian. Gudipati won first prize at the Orchestral Audition Competition and Masterclass at the National Flute Association, the University of Texas Regents’ Award in Arts and Humanities in the Solo Performance category, the Kentucky Collegiate Flute Competition, and the Young Artist Competition of the Florida Flute Association.