Colin James Brumby (18 June 1933 – 3 January 2018) was an Australian composer and conductor. (...)

Brumby was Musical Director of the Queensland Opera Company from 1968 to 1971. While there, he conducted the Australian premieres of works such as Joseph Haydn's L'infedeltà delusa and Georges Bizet's Le docteur Miracle. He also wrote a series of children's operettas, including The Wise Shoemaker (1968) Rita and Dita and the Pirate  (1969),  Rita and Dita in Toyland (1969) and The Prince Who Couldn't Laugh (1969). These operettas toured throughout Queensland by the Queensland Opera Company, and were performed in 400 schools, reaching an audience of 75,000.