Greg Carroll holds a B.A. in music from St. John's University in Minnesota, and earned the M.M. and Ph.D. in Composition/Theory from the University of Iowa, where he studied under Donald Jenni, William Hibbard, and Richard Hervig. Carroll is currently teaching at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He has also taught at Indiana State University, the College of St. Teresa, and the University of Iowa. His compositions have been performed in Canada, Europe, Australia, and the United States. He has served as finalist judge for numerous state and national composition contests and is frequently sought after nationally as a guest lecturer and clinician. He is on the Board of Advisors to the Monroe Institute, a professional organization that explores the effects of sounds on the brain.