Prior to completing his DMA, Greg Gatien moved to Brandon University where he accepted a position on faculty at the School of Music that has involved the development of a jazz studies program. Since returning to Canada, Greg has been active as a teacher, performer and clincian. Greg has been the lead alto saxophonist with the Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra for the past six years, and has appeared frequently with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. Greg has recorded for CBC on many occasions, performed at several jazz festivals throughout Canada, and was recently part of jazz composer/ trumpeter Dean McNeill’s Western-Canadian all-star recording project Prairie Fire, released on Cellar Live, also featuring Mike Downes, Ted Warren, Brian O’Kane, Hugh Fraser, Cambell Ryga, Kelly Jefferson, and John McLeod. Greg has been a member of the Red Lodge Music Festival for the past four years, where he collaborates with jazz pianist John Harmon, and is the director of the International Music Camp’s Jazz camp. He has been an adjudicator at educational music festivals throughout Western Canada, and is a Yamaha artist.