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 full-length ballet of The Winter’s Tale. Ryu has worked with the Washington National Opera Orchestra, Pacific Symphony, New Haven Symphony, NOVUS, and Bard SummerScape among others. He is active in the NYC freelance scene, subbing with The Lion King, Wicked, Les Misérables, Chess, The New York Pops, and the Radio City Christmas Spectacular over the past dozen years.
A Japanese and Serbo-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 and pilot Eric Borghi. Ryu studied at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam in conjunction with Asko|Schönberg’s Ligeti Academy for new music, and the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University.