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.