Ryan De Ryke

Ryan de Ryke is an artist whose versatility and unique musical presence have endeared him to audiences in the worlds of song, musical theater, early music, oratorio, and concert music. He has performed at many of the leading international music festivals including the Aldeburgh and Edinburgh Festivals in the UK and the summer festival at Aix-en-Provence in France, garnering significant acclaim as both a recitalist and singing actor. Ryan studied at the Peabody Conservatory with John Shirley Quirk, the Royal Academy of Music in London with Ian Partridge, and at the National Conservatory of Luxembourg with Georges Backes. He is also an alumnus of the Britten-Pears Institute in the UK and the Schubert Institute in Austria where he worked with great artists of the song world such as Elly Ameling, Wolfgang Holzmair, Julius Drake, Rudolf Jansen, and Helmut Deutsch.

Although Ryan’s first love is song, he is also known for his work in the Early Music community. His performances with Haymarket Opera have been heralded by the Chicago Tribune among their top 5 list, and his interpretations of oratorio are enthusiastically received. Ryan is also an accomplished recording artist who rose to attention with his first CD, “A Wanderer’s Guitar,” on which he collaborates with guitarist Brandon Acker to present Schubert songs. He also appears on the CD “Final Fantasy, Distant Worlds,” conducted by Arnie Roth of Mannheim Steamroller.

During the pandemic, Ryan starred as the eponymous role in a film of Handel’s “Apollo and Dafne” which was streamed by The Metropolitan Opera and The Royal Opera House Covent Garden. Ryan is particularly proud of his latest CD released by Naxos with pianist Eva Mengelkoch of songs by Albrecht Mendelssohn. The American Record Guide hails his “warm and expressive” singing on this album while Fanfare declares that the songs from “Des Knaben Wunderhorn,” “fit the baritone like a glove.”