QUMS performs two major concerts each year, one per university semester, plus various smaller events along the way.

This page gives a brief summary of past QUMS concerts, listed by year. We've digitised full recordings and programs for concerts from 2017 onwards. If you'd like to view these, or share information about earlier concerts you were involved with, please get in touch. We'd love to hear about it.

2026

Semester One - Hear. Her. Voice. Performed in the GHD Auditorium at UQ and conducted by Guillaume Lemay- Yates, this concert featured music solely composed by Women. 

2025

Semester Two — Bread and Empty Chairs. Performed in the GHD Auditorium at UQ and conducted by Guillaume Lemay-Yates. This concert featured QUMS member Mia McKinnon's SUM, the Australian premiere of Caroline Shaw's To The Hands, and Ola Gjeilo's hopeful Sunrise Mass.

Semester One — Home: A Memoir in Movements. Performed in the GHD Auditorium at UQ. Each piece represented a different aspect of finding a sense of place, of belonging, of home.

2024

Semester Two — Anthology: Voice Meets Chorus. Performed in the GHD Auditorium at UQ. It featured poetry set to music, a guest appearance by poet Alessio Emanuele, and the premiere of the QUMS orchestra.

Semester One — Songbirds: Voices of Australia. Performed in the GHD Auditorium at UQ, featuring works by Australian composers.

2023

Semester Two — Haydn's Creation.

Semester One — Bona Fide! Performed in the GHD Auditorium at UQ, featuring songs from the cult classic film O Brother, Where Art Thou?, with Scarlett Road.

2022

Semester Two — Remembrance.

Semester One — Bangers and Mash: Comfort Food for the Chorister. Performed in the GHD Auditorium at UQ.

2021

Semester Two — Carmina Burana.

Semester One — Lost and Found.

2019

Semester Two — And She Shall Have Music. Performed in the GHD Auditorium at UQ, this concert featured music exclusively by women composers, with guest appearances by Louise Denson and Martha Baartz.

Semester One — Afternoon Delights (A Day at the Proms). Performed at St Andrew's Uniting Church on Creek St, with Andrej Kuznetsov on organ.

2018

Semester Two — A Celtic Odyssey. Performed at the Princess Theatre in Annerley. Traditional songs from Ireland, Scotland and Wales, songs from the diaspora in Canada and Australia, and modern works too. This was Robert Stewart's first semester as conductor, with a guest appearance from the City of Brisbane Pipe Band.

Semester One — Colin Brumby: A Retrospective. Performed in the GHD Auditorium at UQ, this was a tribute to the late Dr Colin Brumby, a long-term QUMS conductor and Patron. Guest appearances from the 810 Clarinet Quartet, the Stuartholme Singers, the UQ Chamber Singers, and Michele de Courcy. This was Elspeth Sutherland's final performance as conductor. That semester QUMS also competed (to a limited extent) in the Queensland Eisteddfod at Ipswich.

2017

Semester Two — The Marksman and The Requiem. Performed at St Andrew's Uniting Church on Creek St in conjunction with the Sinfonia of St Andrew's, who performed music from Weber's Der Freischütz before the two combined for Cherubini's Requiem Mass in C minor. Conducted by Adrian Head (Sinfonia).

Semester One — Celestial. Performed in the GHD Auditorium at UQ. Songs of space and the sky, with a guest appearance from the Brisbane Bells.

2016

Semester Two — Completely Classical. Haydn's Harmoniemesse, performed at St Andrew's Uniting Church on Creek St in conjunction with the Sinfonia of St Andrew's. Conducted by Adrian Head (Sinfonia).

Semester One — Elemental. Performed at the Old Spring Hill Baths, with the Aqualina Swimmers. That semester a small group also travelled to Toowoomba for the Queensland Eisteddfod.

2015

Semester Two — Around the World in Eighty Minutes. Performed in the GHD Auditorium at UQ. The first concert conducted by Elspeth Sutherland in her second term: Ramírez's Missa Criolla, with guest appearances from Geoff Ahmet and UQ Taiko.

Semester One — A Night on Broadway. Performed in the GHD Auditorium at UQ, conducted by Julie Sibley. That semester, with near-completely different repertoire, QUMS also competed at the Queensland Eisteddfod at City Hall in Brisbane. This was David Webster's final performance as conductor.

2014

Semester Two — In Windsor Forest. Performed at St Andrew's Uniting Church on Creek St. This concert featured settings of Shakespearean texts.

65th Inter-Varsity Choral Festival — Bach's Mass in B minor (City Hall) and Out of Darkness (St John's Cathedral; Duruflé's Requiem and other pieces).

Semester One — Brahms' Requiem (and other works). Performed in the GHD Auditorium at UQ, also featuring many items from the choir's Queensland Eisteddfod performance on the Sunshine Coast.

2013

Semester Two — Opera Favourites: A Bicentennial Celebration of Verdi and Wagner. Performed at City Hall. A joint concert with the Queensland Choir and the Sinfonia of St Andrew's, conducted by both Kevin Power (TQC) and David Webster (QUMS).

Semester One — Coronatus! Performed at St John's Cathedral. A musical tribute marking the 60th anniversary of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. That semester the choir also competed at the Queensland Eisteddfod over Easter.

And many more

Over a century of performances! If you're a past QUMSian and you'd like to share information about a concert you sang in, please get in touch.