The Holiday Mallet Choir is the Christmas time incarnation of the Allan Spencer Mallet Choir. It is a family-oriented, percussion performance group, bringing amusement and delight to its audience with every stunning delivery. We have a wide variety of musical styles with a vast repertoire. If you are looking for an awe-inspiring performance, then SEARCH NO FURTHER! Your audience will, undoubtedly, be swept off their feet by our exotic, soul-resonating, rosewood marimbas. And the experience of the Allan Spencer Mallet Choir’s interactive atmosphere will send your audience home with cherished memories.
"Allan Spencer is an energetic and animated performer who draws the audience into his well-produced performances."
- Dr. Michael Caldwell, Professor California State University, Fresno Department of Music
"Allan Spencer is a brilliant young performer with many talents. He has this natural and rare ability to create sensational performances. As a skilled marimba player he has given delightful, virtuoso performances that has distinct, beautiful and expressive interpretations totally his own. His amazing flair for style can be experienced in his creative and inspired arrangements for his own marimba ensemble that brought the house down at every performance. He is also an exceptionally gifted communicator who solicits a playful and humorous response from his audiences, and he has a particular talent for communicating with younger audiences. Allan Spencer is an inventive, enterprising and inspired person with some unique musical gifts that will excite and enhance any given performance, whether it features him as a solo performer, together with his marimba ensemble, or as a part of large-scale symphonic events. I cannot recommend Allan Spencer to you enough."
- Henrik Jul Hansen, Music Director of the Merced Symphony Orchestra.
"Allan Spencer's "Mallet Choir" has thrilled Merced audiences with its virtuosity and animation. The Merced Symphony has featured this mesmerizing 4-person group in our January, '07 Family Concert and our May Chamber Concert.
Mr. Spencer's remarkable arrangements of conventional classics such as Korsokov's "Flight of the Bumblebee" and Beethoven's "Pathetique" result in unforgettable eclectic marimba creations.
This "Mallet Choir's" extraordinary musical proficiency electrifies the audience as they hover over the bars, mallets flying at a high velocity, vigorously striking, gently tapping, filling the hall with the unconventional beauty of the marimba sound."
- Donna Goggin, Merced Symphony Association. Vice President
"The Allan Spencer Group performance was lively, entertaining, and joyously received by our audience. The marimba ensemble really puts the fun back into classical and jazz music."
- Judy Edwina Smith, Merced Symphony Association. President.
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