Geoff Warren

Geoff Warren is a graduate from London University who studied flute with Derek Honner of the Royal Academy of Music.
He started his jazz career as flautist/saxophonist in the ranks of) Graham Collier with whom he has since played at major music festivals in Europe and Asia, working alongside famous musicians in the British jazz scene such as John Surman, Kenny Wheeler, Harry Beckett and John Marshall.

As band leader, with the “Geoff Warren Quartet," he has made numerous recordings for BBC national radio and toured in Hungary (1984) and Yugoslavia (1985) for: the British Council. In 1983 the Arts Council of Great Britain, commissioned him to write a composition for this quartet.
His involvement in ethno-jazz has seen Geoff on tour and making records with internationally acclaimed musicians including tablas player, Badal Roy, historic sideman of Miles Davis, with) Tartar guitarist (Tartar,) Enver Izmailov (the “ Stanley Jordan of the East ") and Basque guitarist Balen Lopez De Munain.

Particularly busy on the Italian jazz scene he has worked with many Italian jazz names and has had a long standing cooperation with) the abruzzese bassist Marcello Sebastiani, with whom he has made several records.
In 2008 Warren performed his "Concerto for Flute, Tablas and Orchestra", with tablas player Arup Kanti Das and "The Orchestra of the Teatro Marrucino" of Chieti.
Active throughout his career in the teaching of jazz flute his work has been the subject of articles in flute magazines Falaut in Italy, and Pan in Great Britain.

From 1985 to 1993 he was a professor on the jazz course at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
Geoff has presented masterclasses in jazz flute at conservatories and art institutions in Italy, Great Britain and Norway. Every year he holds a Jazz Flute Summer School in Abruzzo, Italy, which has attracted participants from all over Europe.
His latest recorded work, written and performed entirely by Geoff, is "Flute Fables" for solo flute, produced by Peter Wiessmueller for the German label, TUTU Records in 2010.

In 2011 Geoff Warren became a Yamaha Europe Artist and in 2012 he was apponted Principal Examiner of the Diploma Programme - Music Creating Component for the International Baccalaureate Organisation.