Greg Runions is a Canadian composer, arranger and percussionist residing in Kingston, Ontario. His original works for big band, small groups, orchestra, orchestra with big band, and percussion ensemble have been performed by The Greg Runions Big Band and The Greg Runions Septet, The Kingston Symphony Orchestra, and by numerous ensembles at colleges and high schools in Canada, the U.S., and the Netherlands. A graduate of Queen’s University in Kingston, and the Crane School of Music in Potsdam, New York, Greg has been a percussionist with The Windsor Symphony, and is now the timpanist of The Kingston Symphony Orchestra. He has been a professor at The Dan School of Drama and Music at Queen’s since 1985, teaching percussion, music curriculum, and directing the Queen’s Jazz Ensemble.

After attending The Banff Centre for the Arts in 1993 to participate in the Jazz Workshop, Greg began performing primarily as a vibraphonist and devoting a lot of his time to composing and arranging. While in Banff, he began a musical relationship with Canadian trumpeter/composer Kenny Wheeler that initially developed into The Greg Runions Septet (featuring Greg's compositions with Kenny as featured soloist), and continued with several other collaborations in the years following, including week-long big band workshops in 1996 and 1997. These meetings of Kenny’s compositions and an all-star ensemble of young Canadian jazz artists served as the initial motivation for Greg to start creating music for his own large jazz ensemble.

Since that time, Greg has recorded four independent discs, But Not Forgotten (1993), Sweet Home Suite (2002), Something Old, Something New (2018), and Suite Vincent (2019), and has invited a number of outstanding jazz artists to perform with his big band, including Brian Dickinson, Tim Hagans, Anthony Braxton, Don Thompson, Joe Sullivan, Mike Murley, John MacLeod, Tony Bennett, and Kenny Wheeler.