| 2010
| March | YouTube channel brought online. |
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February | London premiere of three of Henryk Górecki's Five Kurpian Songs. |
| | January | Launched on Facebook. |
| 2009
| December | Featured on Sean Rafferty's "In Tune" programme on Radio 3. |
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July | First public performance of Michael McHale's musical setting of David Walter Hall's acclaimed play, Cross Road Blues, at the Hackney Empire. |
| | June | St Martin in the Fields concert, including Bach's F major Mass. |
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May | London Festival of Contemporary Church Music concert, including the world premiere of Paul Stanhope's Exile Lamentations, co-commissioned by the choir, and the London premiere of James Macmillan's Tenebrae Responsories. |
| 2008
| September | Bantock CD track selected by Making Music for preview on Classic FM's "The Full Works". |
| | August | Website receives its 20,000th visit. |
| | July | Concert at St Catharine's College, Cambridge under James Weeks including the world premiere of John Habron's Salve Regina. |
| | March | Concert of 21st century music directed by founder, Matthew Greenall and attended by composer, Gabriel Jackson. |
| 2007 | December | St John's, Smith Square concert under guest conductor, Jeremy Summerly.
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| | July | Meridian CD recording of works by Granville Bantock.
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| | May | UK premiere of Henryk Górecki's Songs of Rodziny Katynskie. London premiere of James MacMillan's Invocation.
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| | March | Invited to Winchester Cathedral to sing the three Sunday services. |
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| 2006 | December | Subject of a twentieth birthday feature article
in Choir and Organ. Download the article.
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| | November | Private recordings of works by a variety of young and lesser known composers at two open rehearsals. |
| | October | Twentieth bithday reunion concert. Almost forty former singers joined the present choir in a performance of Rachmaninoff's Vespers. |
| | June | Corsham Festival concert. |
| | May | London premiere of Peter Maxwell Davies' "O verbum patris". |
| 2005 | December | Performance of the Messiah in Tetbury, with players from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Royal Academy. |
| | May | London premieres of James Whitbourn's Magnificat & Nunc dimittis and Tarik O'Regan's Dorchester Canticles. |
| | March | UK premieres of Philippe Mazé's "Trois motets pour un temps de pénitence" in the presence of the composer. |
| 2004 | December | World premiere of Elysian Singers' 2004 commission "Bring rest, sweet dreaming child" by Tarik O'Regan. |
| | December | Charity concert at the Wigmore Hall in support of professional training in Russia. |
| | October | Trip to Spain for the 36th annual international choral festival in Tolosa. |
| | October | Kenneth Leighton memorial concert. Also the London premiere of "Mettimi come un sigillo" in the presence of composer, Julian Allwood. |
| | May | Released "Cantos Sagrados", a CD of choral music by James Macmillan including two first recordings. |
| 2003 | November | Granada TV broadcast. |
| | October | Royal Festival Hall foyer concert in conjunction with the South Bank's World
Voice Choral Festival of 2003. |
| | July | Trip to Dublin. |
| | April | Broadcast the Lesley Garrett Easter Special for BBC2, with the City of London Sinfonia. |
| | February | Registered as a Charity. |
| | January | UK heat winners in the 2003 "Let the peoples sing" competition. more details |
2002 | December | Christmas carol concert for the Royal Academy of Arts, London. | | | November | Friends scheme launched. |
| | August | CD recording "Peacocks and Piranhas". |
| | July | Jubilee Spectacular lakeside promenade concert at Kenwood House (including fireworks) with the BBC Concert Orchestra. |
| | June | Spitalfields festival concert including Alan Bullard's "Choristers of flight" in the presence of the composer. |
| | May | Sir John Tavener becomes Patron. |
2001 | December | Featured on BBC2's Lesley Garrett Show, singing the chorale from Bach's cantata no.29. | | | August | Showcased at the annual convention of the Association of British Choral Directors, giving a lunchtime concert and participating in two open rehearsals under Robert King. |
| | July | Almeida festival concert of Jonathan Harvey's music in the presence of the composer. |
| | February | Selected and recorded by BBC Radio 3 as the adult choir to represent the UK in the semi-finals of the biennial pan-European "Let the peoples sing" competition 2001. |
2000 | December | One of eight choirs to win through to the finals of the Sainsbury's Choir of the Year 2000 competition at the Albert Hall. | | | November | Concert sponsored by the Tate Gallery introduced and partly conducted by Sir John Tavener with Patricia Rozario as soloist. |
| | July | British premieres of Per Nørgård's "D'Monstranz Vöögeli" and "Halleluja - vor Gud er forrykt!" in the presence of the composer. |
| | April | Sam Laughton appointed Director in succession to Matthew Greenall. |
| 1999 | December | Joint concert with The Australian Voices during their UK tour. |
| | October | Opening concert of the 1999 York Contemporary Music Festival in York Minster. |
| August | Tavener performance with Patricia Rozario in the ruined stadium in Delphi. |
| | January | Workshop and concert in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, at the invitation of Northern Stage. |
| 1998 | November | Sainsbury's Choir of the Year semi-finalists - one of eight mixed-voice choirs to reach the BBC-televised stages from over 300 applicants. |
| | November | Fiftieth Birthday concert for HRH The Prince of Wales at Windsor Castle with John Tavener, Mstislav Rostropovich and the English Chamber Orchestra. |
| | April | Royal Academy of Arts' concert with Patricia Rozario and Steven Isserlis. Broadcast by Classic FM and over 200 Public Service broadcast stations across the USA. |
| 1997 | August | BBC Mercury Music Awards prizegiving, performing John Tavener's "Svyati" with Steven Isserlis. |
| | August | Wigmore Hall concert with Tasmin Little and Julian Lloyd Webber in memory of Delius' emanuensis, Eric Fenby. |
| | July | Purcell Room concert. |
| 1996 | October | Concert featuring the London premiere of Howard Skempton's "The Flight of Song", and John Tavener's 48-part "Let not the Prince be Silent" in the presence of the composer. |
| | July | Series of four Bruckner concerts with the Endymion Ensemble for the City of London Festival. Recorded for New York State Radio (WNYC). |
| February | Tenth anniversary concert, including the world premiere of Elysian Singers' commission "Les Origines Humaines" by Andrew Hugill. |
| January | British premiere of Korngold's opera "Die Tote Stadt" at the Queen Elizabeth Hall with the Kensington Symphony Orchestra. |
| 1995 | December | Performance at the Alexandra Palace reception for His All Holiness the Patriarch of Constantinople. |
| | October | World premiere of Julian Butcher's "Come everyone that thirsteth" in the New MacNaghten concert series. |
| | June | Two "Oh dear Purcell" comedy concerts in the City of London Festival (with the actor Patrick Barlow and the National Theatre of Brent). |
| 1994 | October | Concert at the Oxford Festival of Contemporary Music featuring twentieth century American composers. |
| | June | Purcell Room concert including the world premiere of Elysian Singers' commission "Over the Sea" by John Woolrich. |
| | April | World premiere of Elysian Singers' commission "Psalms of Ascent" by Malcolm Singer. |
| | February | CD recording with James Bowman of "The Fall of Lucifer" and other works by Geoffrey Burgon. |
| 1993 | November | UK premieres of Henryk Gorecki's "Three Lullabies" and (with the Holst Singers and the Oxford Schola Cantorum) "Miserere", in the composer's presence. Broadcast by Radio 3. |
| | August | Performed at the summer music festival in Cordes, southwest France. |
| | July | London premiere of Dvorak's opera "Dmitrij" at the Queen Elizabeth Hall with the Kensington Symphony Orchestra and the Vasari Singers. |
| | April | World premieres of two Elysian Singers' commissions - Howard Skempton's "Roundels of the Year" and Aidan Fisher's "Allu Mari". |
| | March | Private recording of Geoffrey Burgon's musical "Hard Times". |
| 1992 | September | CD recording of Delius' complete part songs. |
| | July | World premiere of "Farthest North" by Michael Parsons. |
| | May | Tour of Czechoslovakia. |
| 1991 | August | Recording of "Child of Light" CD, featuring Benjamin Britten's "Ceremony of Carols". |
| 1990 | June | Florilège Vocal Festival, Tours, France. |
| 1989 | July | Tour of Denmark. |
| 1986 | February | Choir formed. |
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