HANNA BINGHAM, violin, joined the Apollo’s Fire Young Artist Fellowship program in 2024. She enjoys performing as a chamber musician, baroque violinist, and soloist. She has been featured on NPR’s national young artist showcase, From the Top. Playing on a baroque violin that was gifted to her by period specialist David Douglass (the retired director of the Newberry Consort), Hanna holds a Master’s Degree in String Performance as a scholarship student at Northwestern University. She teaches violin privately in the Chicago area.
HANNA BINGHAM
ELORA KARES, soprano, has been a Young Artist Fellow with Apollo’s Fire since 2022. She is a freshman at the Cleveland Institute of Music, studying cello and voice. While in high school, she was a full-scholarship student in the Academy at CIM, studying cello, voice, and composition. She has been featured on NPR’s national young artist showcase, From the Top; and has performed as soloist in Apollo’s Fire’s Splendor of London, WASSAIL!, and Lift Ev’ry Voice concerts. As a cellist, she is the winner of the 2024 Suburban Symphony Young Soloists Concerto Competition and will perform as soloist with the symphony in spring 2025. As a soprano, she is featured with Apollo’s Fire this season in WASSAIL! and J.S. Bach’s Coffee Cantata.
ANN YU, violin, is praised for her “full bodied, rich, and warm tone” (Cleveland.com), and finds limitless inspiration in exploring multiple genres and musical styles in the historical and modern musical worlds, leading her to unique projects with the Poiema Trio and the Caroga Arts Collective, among others. She received her bachelors and masters degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music studying with Jaime Laredo, Jan Sloman, and William Preucil, and currently studies baroque violin with Julie Andrijeski.