Founded in 1947 by Jesús Ribera Faig, is formed by students, graduates and professors of the University of Valencia and the Universitat Politècnica de València. Since 1972 it is under the musical direction of Eduardo Cifre Gallego.

As an outstanding university choir, both nationally and internationally, the University Choir of Valencia has won the First Prize in all editions of the Concurso Nacional de Coros Universitarios (National Contest of University Choirs), and has been selected among the best in the world to participate in the international festivals of university choirs held in Lille (1956), New York (1965), Coimbra (1973), Manila (1979) and Rome (1984).

It has been awarded in the contests of Llangolten and Knocke, and in 1984 it won the First Prize of the International Contest of University Choirs held in Pardubice (Czechoslovakia). In this festival, it won the prize to the best choir of its ten editions in 1988 and was invited to this festival as an honour Choir in 1994.

It has attended to several choral festivals both in Spain and abroad. It has made tours in France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Austria, Portugal, Russia, U.S, India, Philippines, etc.

It has performed over thirty symphonic-choral works including: Coronation Mass, W.A. Mozart; Carmina Burana, C. Orff; Alexander Nevsky, S.Prokofiev (premiere in Spain); L’enfance du Christ, H.Berlioz (premiere in Spain); Magnificat, J.S Bach; De Profundis, O. Espla (worldwide premiere); Te Deum, Z. Kodaly (premiere in Spain); Trenhi, I. Stravinsky (premiere in Spain); Song of the Forests, D. Shostakovich (premiere in Spain); Catuli Carmina, C. Orff (premiere in Spain); Magnificat, G.B. Pergotesi; Harmiemesse, J. Haydn; Gloria, A. Vivaldi; Mass num.3 in F minor, A. Bruckner (premiere in Spain); Gloria, F. Poulenc (premiere in Spain); Symphony of Psalms, I. Stravinsky; Czech Song, B. Smetana (premiere in Spain); Dettingen Anthem; G. F. Haendef; The Seasons, J. Haydn; Te Deum, C. Cano (worldwide premiere); Saint George Flag, E. Elgar; Misa Solemnis, J. Lammerz (worldwide premiere); Chichester Psalms, L. Bernstein (premiere in Spain); Requiem, A. Dvorak, etc.

It has performed in the EXPO ’92 of Seville, invited by the Valencian Community Pavilion. It has participated in the XIII Festival Internacional de Música de Cantonigrós (eighth International Music Festival of Cantonigrós) in Barcelona (1995) and in the first International Religious Music Festival of Rottenburg am Neckar (Germany) (1995), where it was selected for a televised mass by the South Germany television channel. Since 1992 it co-organises, biannually, the International University Choirs Festival (F.I.C.U).

In 1997, the University Choir of Valencia celebrated its 50 anniversary of life and, at the same time, its uninterrupted musical work, which makes it the oldest university association in Spain.