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
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.
KIYOE MATSUURA, violin, became an Apollo’s Fire Young Artist Fellow in 2024. Performing on baroque violin and viola, Kiyoe has played in groups such as Haymarket Opera Orchestra, Callipygian Players, Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, and Bella Voce Sinfonia. Her violin/keyboard duo,