Kiki Hood

Soprano Kiki Hood is a Seattle native from a musical family. She started out singing in the elementary school choir in fourth grade, singing alto  because she could hear harmony. In fifth grade, she shifted to the cello, and stayed with it through high school, at which time she went back to singing and took up the recorder. She has studied music in Seattle's community colleges, notably voice with Carol Sams and theory and conducting with Roupen Shakarian. 

Kiki has sung in the Pacific Northwest Chamber Chorus, under the direction of Dr. Joan Conlin and Steven Demorest, as well as its smaller unit, Canzonetta; she has also sung with The Esoterics, and currently sings with the Seattle Chamber Singers, with George Shangrow. 

As a soloist, she has performed part of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater at First Presbyterian Church and in several concerts and recitals at Pilgrim Congregational Church, featuring songs by local composers Carol Sams and Gloria Wilson Swisher, in addition to other opera and art song repertoire. On the stage, Kiki has appeared in the title role of Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience and as Val in Carol Sam's Daddy's Money. She has also been the soloist in Mozart's Requiem and Handel's Messiah.  Her heart remains with vocal chamber music, though, having been a member of the mixed voice quartet Tobermory, and currently a member of The Sisters. 

Although her musical preferences tend to weigh in with early and baroque music, her tastes are exceedingly broad, with special interest in music of the twentieth century. As assistant music director of University Christian Church, she enjoys exploring all kinds of music with her choir and a congregation that enjoys variety.