Kiki Porter

Kiki Porter is a second-year master's student in choral conducting at Butler University and conducting fellow with the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir. She graduated from Oberlin Conservatory with a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance. Kiki was introduced to musicianship early in life as a member of the Metropolitan Opera Children's Chorus, where she sang in more than 250 performances in 16 different operas over seven years.

She continued to develop her singing through All-State & All-Eastern choirs and summers at Interlochen Arts Camp, where she eventually became a counselor. She made her college opera debut as Peaseblossom in Oberlin Opera Theater's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Kiki sang in Oberlin College Choir, the Chamber Singers ensemble, and the Seraphic Fire's Choral Institute.

Kiki was previously Choir Director at Oberlin's First United Methodist Church. She also conducted spiritual and classical pieces with the Oberlin College Choir and Chamber Singers and served as assistant conductor in Oberlin Opera Theater's production of Handel's Acis and Galatea. Her conducting studies at Oberlin were with Dr. Gregory Ristow and Dr. Ben Johns.

Kiki is currently the church choir director at Zionsville United Methodist Church and the Damenchor choir director at the Indianapolis Liederkranz. She is the graduate assistant of the Butler Chorale and conducts one song each concert cycle.