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 worked with the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, Pacific Symphony, New Haven Symphony, NOVUS, and The New York Pops among others. He has subbed on numerous Broadway shows for the past dozen years, most often with The Lion King.
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 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, and the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University.