SETH HOBI, baritone, has been an Apollo’s Fire Young Artist Fellow since 2023. He received his bachelor’s degree from Cleveland State University and is currently pursuing his master’s degree at the University of Notre Dame. He recently attended the Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute and the Seraphic Fire Professional Choral Institute. Seth sings in Apollo’s Fire Singers and has performed as a soloist and chorister with many other local ensembles in Northeast Ohio.
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.