From the stage to the concert hall, Seth Hobi brings performances to life with heartfelt sensitivity and deep musical insight. A versatile baritone and committed ensemble artist, Seth’s work bridges sacred and secular traditions, early music and contemporary repertoire, with a special passion for collaboration.

Seth is currently a Young Artist Fellow with Apollo’s Fire, where he has performed in major oratorios including Handel’s Messiah and Israel in Egypt, the latter including a collaboration with the New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center. He has also sung with the JSB Ensemble in Stuttgart, Germany, the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, Blossom Festival Chorus, and Schola Cantorum Lorain, and has toured nationally and regionally with these ensembles.

Seth Hobi’s operatic work includes performances spanning from baroque to modern repertoire. At the 2025 Boston Early Music Festival, he appeared in Reinhard Keiser’s Octavia as a chorus member understudying the role of Seneca, and performed the role of Palante in Handel’s Agrippina. At the University of Notre Dame, he has portrayed Aeneas in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. Earlier roles include Polyphemus in Handel’s Acis and Galatea and the Father in Kurt Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins at Cleveland State University.

As a concert soloist, Seth Hobi has distinguished himself in a wide range of sacred and choral-orchestral repertoire. Recent highlights include his portrayal of Jesus in J.S. Bach’s St. John Passion with the Leipzig Baroque Orchestra and Valparaiso Bach Institute, and solo appearances in Bach’s Herr, wie du willt, so schick’s mit mir BWV 73 and Christus, der ist mein Leben BWV 95 with the Bach Collegium Fort Wayne. He has been featured as the baritone soloist in Haydn’s The Creation, Schubert’s Mass in G, and Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Fantasia on Christmas Carols, and Handel’s Messiah.

In addition to performing, Seth is an emerging pedagogue and conductor, directing the Descant Choir of the Notre Dame Children’s Choir. He believes strongly in music’s power to shape communities and is committed to artistic excellence rooted in connection and service.

Seth is currently pursuing a Master of Sacred Music in Voice at the University of Notre Dame, where he studies with Dr. Stephen Lancaster. He earned his Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance, cum laude, from Cleveland State University, where he was a Sheri Bierman Fellow with the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus and a recipient of the Dr. Martin R. Endowed Memorial Scholarship in Voice.