Ryan De Ryke and Daniel Schlosberg

Ryan de Ryke is a vocal 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. Having studied with John Shirley Quirk, Ian Partridge, and 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. His performances with Haymarket Opera have been heralded by the Chicago Tribune among their top 5 list.

Pianist Daniel Schlosberg leads a kaleidoscopic musical life. He has appeared with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in numerous chamber music and new music concerts. He has a passion for contemporary music, and has premiered Augusta Read Thomas’s “Starlight Ribbons” and given the US premiere of Kaija Saariaho’s Calices with violinist Austin Wulliman. He has recorded for the Albany, Bridge, Bright Shiny Things, Centaur, Navona, New World, Nimbus, Jacaranda and Permelia labels.

In the art song realm, he was on staff at Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute and was the founder of the Baltimore Lieder Weekend. Based in Chicago, he is on faculty at the University of Notre Dame.