Gregory J. Aune, D.M.A. is currently in his fifteenth year as Associate Professor of Music and Conductor of The Gustavus Choir. In addition to his work with the Gustavus Choir, Dr. Aune conducts The Chamber Singers and the St. Ansgar's Men's Chorus. He teaches classes in the conducting and choral literature, and serves as Music Director of the annual Christmas in Christ Chapel program. Aune has adjudicated and guest conducted festivals in South Dakota, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Choirs under his direction have twice appeared at the North Central Division Convention of the American Choral Directors Association, and have sung at the Minnesota Music Educators Association and the Kansas Music Educators Association Convention. He has been selected to conduct the 2010 Wisconsin Music Educators All State Mixed Choir.
Professor Aune has an extensive resume conducting choral/orchestral masterworks and orchestral literature, including multiple performances of Handel's Messiah, Bach's St. Matthew Passion, the Mozart Requiem, and the Brahms German Requiem. He has conducted symphonies and orchestral works of Brahms, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Grieg, Elgar, Bernstein, and Weber, and concertos of Chopin, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Bruch, Saint-Saens, and Mozart.
A 1976 graduate of Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota, Aune hold graduate degrees from the University of Iowa School of Music, including the D.M.A. awarded in 1987. His post-graduate experiences include study and performance with the Robert Shaw Choral Institute, under the auspices of Carnegie Hall, New York.