about
Scene from Christopher Wheeldon’s The Winter’s Tale. Photo: Nir Arieli, courtesy of American Ballet Theatre
Ryu Cipris was featured onstage at the Metropolitan Opera House and The Kennedy Center with American Ballet Theatre—playing North Indian bansuri flutes, he was a soloist in Christopher Wheeldon’s The Winter’s Tale. Ryu has freelanced with the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, Pacific Symphony, New Haven Symphony, NOVUS, Opera Saratoga, and The New York Pops among others. He has subbed frequently on Broadway for the past dozen years, currently working with Wicked and The Lion King.
A Japanese-Croatian native of New Jersey, Ryu won the 2010 Dutch International Flute Competition while completing graduate school in The Netherlands; he then joined the 25th Anniversary North American tour of Les Misérables where he met his husband, percussionist Eric Borghi. Ryu studied with Marieke Schneemann at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and Marina Piccinini at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore.