Chief Conductors
- John Farnsworth Hall (1947–1954)
- Rudolf Pekárek (1954–67)
- Stanford Robinson (1968–1969)
- Ezra Rachlin (1970–1972)
- Patrick Thomas (1973–1977)
- Werner Andreas Albert (1983–1990)
- Muhai Tang (1991–2001; now Conductor Laureate)
- Michael Christie (2001–2004; as The Queensland Orchestra)
- Johannes Fritzsch (2007–present; initially as The Queensland Orchestra, and from 2010 as the Queensland Symphony Orchestra)
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