Neil taught music at the elementary and secondary levels for 17 years.  He has been the director of the nationally-acclaimed Nepean All-City Jazz Band for 32 years, and is active as a jazz adjudicator and clinician throughout North America.  Over 50 of his compositions for jazz ensemble are published through UNC Jazz Press and Burnihla Music Publishing, and are available worldwide through J. W. Pepper; several are preserved by the National Library of Canada (Archives). He was one of the eight contributing composers to the inaugural Canadian “New Sounds of Learning Project”. He was selected as the inaugural winner of the Tommy Banks Most Outstanding Jazz Director Award in 2018, and was a contributor to “Jazz Pedagogy, A Canadian Perspective”. ​