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Scene from Christopher Wheeldon\u2019s The Winter\u2019s Tale. Photo: Nir Arieli, courtesy of American Ballet Theatre<\/p><\/div>\n

Ryu Cipris was featured onstage at the Metropolitan Opera House and The Kennedy Center with American Ballet Theatre\u2014playing North Indian bansuri flutes, he was a soloist in Christopher Wheeldon\u2019s The Winter\u2019s 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 worked on Broadway for over a decade, currently subbing with Chess, Wicked, and The Lion King\u2014both in NYC and on tour.<\/p>\n

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 Mis\u00e9rables 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ryu Cipris was featured onstage at the Metropolitan Opera House and The Kennedy Center with American Ballet Theatre\u2014playing North Indian bansuri flutes, he was a soloist in Christopher Wheeldon\u2019s The Winter\u2019s Tale. 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