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Professional Performance History

Selected orchestral, choral, sacred, opera, theatre, and academic repertoire history for Spencer Perilloux, a Detroit-area percussionist, timpanist, educator, and AFM Local 5 member.

  • Orchestral percussion
  • Timpani
  • Choral and sacred work
  • AFM Local 5 member
  • Metro Detroit

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Selected engagements and scheduled appearances.

The professional sections below focus on recent orchestral, choral, sacred, and church work. Scheduled appearances are labeled separately from completed performances.

Professional Orchestral Engagements

Selected professional orchestral work across regional orchestras, pops programs, masterworks, contractor-booked engagements, and festival fellowship repertoire.

Oakland Symphony Orchestra

Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra

Flint Symphony Orchestra

Warren Symphony Orchestra

Macomb Symphony Orchestra

West Michigan Symphony

Windsor Symphony Orchestra

Rochester Symphony Orchestra

Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestra

Round Top Festival Institute

Oakland Symphony Orchestra

3 selected engagements

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March 31, 2026

Detroit Orchestra Hall with OU Symphony Chorus

Detroit Orchestra Hall

Completed
  • Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances, Op. 45Tambourine
  • Franz Joseph Haydn: Missa in tempore belli

February 15, 2026

29th David Daniels Young Artists Concert

Completed
  • Claude Debussy: La Mer
  • Manuel de Falla: El sombrero de tres picos (Three Cornered Hat) Suite No. 2
  • Aleksandra Pakhmutova: Trumpet Concerto

November 2, 2025

Concert II

Completed
  • Olivier Messiaen: Oiseaux exotiquesGlockenspielFeatured on glockenspiel
  • Igor Stravinsky: Suite from The Firebird (1919)
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
  • Nkeiru Okoye: Voices Shouting Out

Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra

5 selected engagements

March 28, 2026

Music Reframed: Pictures at an Exhibition

Completed
  • Modest Mussorgsky, arr. Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition
  • Maurice Ravel: Alborada del gracioso

September 27, 2025

Lights, Camera, Orchestra!

Completed
  • John Williams, Bernard Herrmann, Lalo Schifrin, and Elmer Bernstein: Pops program featuring major film scores

March 1, 2025

Back Home With Kevin Cole

Completed
  • Claude Bolling: Suite for Chamber Orchestra and Jazz Piano Trio

February 8, 2025

Symphonie Fantastique

Completed
  • Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique
  • Richard Wagner: Rienzi: Overture
  • Alberto Ginastera: Harp Concerto

October 25, 2024

Green vs Blue: The Concert Tailgate Experience

Completed
  • Aaron Copland: Lincoln Portrait
  • Christopher Rouse: Symphony No. 1
  • Michael Torke: Green and Bright Blue Music

Flint Symphony Orchestra

Selected engagement

October 26, 2025

Frightfully Fun Halloween Pops

Completed
  • J.S. Bach/Stokowski: Toccata and Fugue in D minor
  • Paul Dukas: The Sorcerer's Apprentice
  • Modest Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain

Warren Symphony Orchestra

Selected engagement

May 17, 2026

Ravel and Gershwin

Completed
  • George Gershwin: An American in Paris
  • Maurice Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
  • Michael Daugherty: Harp of Ages (Concerto)

Macomb Symphony Orchestra

Selected engagement

Triangle

April 19, 2026

51st Season Finale

Completed
  • Ottorino Respighi: Pines of RomeTriangle
  • Richard Strauss: Violin Concerto
  • Hector Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture

West Michigan Symphony

Selected engagement

January 30, 2026

Superheroes at the Symphony

Completed

Selected program details are available on request.

Windsor Symphony Orchestra

2 selected engagements

May 1-3, 2026

Masterworks 5

Completed
  • Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2

April 29, 2026

Season Launch

Completed
  • Various: Pops and James Bond program

Rochester Symphony Orchestra

Selected engagement

December 12, 2025

Light - Holiday Concert

Completed
  • Leroy Anderson: A Christmas Festival
  • Felix Mendelssohn: Hark, the Herald Angels Sing
  • Emile Waldteufel: Skater's Waltz

Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestra

Selected engagement

May 9, 2026

Season Finale: Bernstein, Dvorak & Tchaikovsky

Completed

Selected program details are available on request.

Round Top Festival Institute

Selected engagement

TimpaniSnare drumCymbalsTriangle

Summer 2023

Festival fellowship

Percussion and Timpani Fellow

Fellowship
  • Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 2Timpani
  • Richard Strauss: Der RosenkavalierSnare drum
  • Richard Strauss: Don JuanCymbals
  • Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphonic DancesTriangle
  • Michael Daugherty: Harp Concerto
  • George Gershwin: An American in Paris

Choral, Sacred, and Church Engagements

Spencer is regularly engaged for timpani and percussion in choral, sacred, and church music settings, including Mozart masses, Handel's Messiah, oratorio-style programs, holiday services, and regional choral collaborations.

St. Patrick Catholic Church

Fort Street Chorale

Detroit Concert Choir

Rochester Community Chorus

First Presbyterian Church of Ann Arbor

Michigan Sinfonietta

St. Patrick Catholic Church

2 selected engagements

Timpani

June 7, 2026

Annual Mozart Concert

White Lake, Michigan | Constantine Novotny, Music Director

Scheduled
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Coronation Mass in C Major, K. 317Timpani
  • Johann Michael Haydn: Applicatio MH 323North American Premiere

June 22, 2025

First Annual White Lake Mozart Festival

White Lake, Michigan | Constantine Novotny, Music Director

Completed
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Credo Mass in C Major, K. 257Timpani
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Veni Sancte Spiritus in C Major, K. 47Timpani

Fort Street Chorale

3 selected engagements

Timpani

February 22, 2026

A Black History Month Celebration Concert

Completed

Selected program details are available on request.

December 13-14, 2025

Handel's Messiah

Completed
  • George Frideric Handel: MessiahTimpaniTimpanist for three consecutive years

May 4, 2025

Completed
  • Joseph Haydn: Lord Nelson Mass
  • Johann Georg Albrechtsberger: Concerto for Organ and Strings

Detroit Concert Choir

2 selected engagements

March 15-16, 2025

Music of Triumph

Completed
  • George Frideric Handel: The King Shall Rejoice

December 8-9, 2023

Holiday Concert

Completed
  • Antonio Vivaldi: Gloria

Rochester Community Chorus

Selected engagement

January 25, 2026

Completed
  • John Rutter: Magnificat
  • Adolphus Hailstork: I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Divertimenti

First Presbyterian Church of Ann Arbor

Selected engagement

April 20, 2025

First Brass Ensemble, Easter Sunday services

Completed

Selected program details are available on request.

Michigan Sinfonietta

Selected engagement

Active role

Active substitute percussionist and timpanist

Active role

Selected program details are available on request.

Contract accompaniment for regional choral groups.

Academic & Comprehensive Repertoire Archive

The archive below includes selected collegiate, solo, chamber, ensemble, theatre, and academic repertoire from Spencer's graduate and undergraduate study. It is provided for searchability and professional context, while the primary resume focus remains recent professional engagements.

University of Michigan

M.M. Percussion Performance

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Symphony Band

2023-2024 season

  • Dmitri Kabalevsky: Colas Breugnon
  • Joseph Schwantner: ...and the mountains rising nowhere
  • John Mackey: Frozen Cathedral
  • Michael Daugherty: The Adventures of Jesse Owens
  • Arnold Schoenberg: Cool Cat
  • Aaron Copland: Emblems

Percussion Ensemble

Fall 2023

  • Dewa Alit: Working Together
  • Gavin Bryars: One last bar then Joe can sing
  • John Cage: Second Construction
  • John Cage: Double Music

Additional University of Michigan ensemble history from Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 may be appended after the verified list is provided.

Central Michigan University

B.M. Percussion Performance

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Solo Percussion & Marimba

Selected solo percussion and marimba repertoire

  • J.S. Bach: Violin Sonata in G Minor
  • J.S. Bach: Lute Suite in E Minor
  • J.S. Bach: Violin Partita in D Minor
  • Joseph Schwantner: Velocities
  • Alejandro Viñao: Khan Variations
  • Iannis Xenakis: Rebonds
  • Eric Ewazen: Concerto for Marimba
  • Paul Smadbeck: Virginia Tate

Orchestral Repertoire

Selected orchestral repertoire

  • Igor Stravinsky: The Firebird
  • Maurice Ravel: Bolero
  • Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1
  • Leonard Bernstein: Overture to Candide
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker
  • John Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine
  • Arturo Marquez: Danzon No. 2

Chamber & Percussion Ensemble

Selected chamber and percussion ensemble repertoire

  • Andy Akiho: to wALk Or ruN in wEst harlem
  • Anna Thorvaldsdottir: Aura
  • Nathan Daughtrey: An Extraordinary Correspondence

Wind Ensemble

Selected wind ensemble repertoire

  • David Maslanka: Symphony No. 10
  • Omar Thomas: Of Our New Day Begun
  • Jennifer Higdon: Mysterium
  • John Mackey: Strange Humors

Musical Theatre

Drum set / principal percussion

  • Sweeney Todd
  • Shrek the Musical
  • Ragtime
  • Legally Blonde
  • Seussical

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