Stacey Weir is an accomplished cellist and experienced teacher of both cello and piano. She has earned numerous high-profile performance opportunities, including the Lord Mayor’s Christmas Carols, the Opera Queensland and UQ School of Music co-production Songs of Love and War, and with acclaimed musical group Nonsemble.
Ms Weir also volunteers at a non-profit kitchen, ran volunteer music workshops for school-aged children from 2019–2022, initiated an annual Homeless Connect collection drive at Mansfield State High School and participated in the Lord Mayor’s Youth Advisory Council in 2017.
She received 7 Dean’s commendations for academic excellence, was a finalist in the Richard Pollett Strings Prize in 2021-22, won the 4MBS Musica Viva Sid Page Memorial Prize in Chamber Music in 2022 and received the 2023 Music Honours Prize.
In 2024, she founded her own private music tuition business and now coaches students alongside her Master of Audiology studies and ongoing duties as a Research Assistant in the School of Music.
What’s a UQ memory that shaped who you are today?
“Performing at Queensland Performing Arts Centre with many of my friends in the UQ Symphony Orchestra. I remember thinking what a surreal experience it was and how lucky I was to be there.”
If you could snap your fingers and change one thing about the world, what would it be?
“That we’d take more time to appreciate the people around us. I think we often don’t realise how important is to see the world from a perspective outside ourselves.”
