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1980-1987, ILEA (London) Adult Education, Lecturer at various Institutes in Jazz, Jazz Workshops, Family Music Workshops.

1980-81 Addison Institute

1981-83 Clapham Battersea Institute

1981-88 Westminster Institute

1982-83 ILEA Family Education Unit

1981-83, London University Extra Mural Department, Lecturer in "Jazz and its influence on 20th C. Music."

1987-88, Medway College of Art and Design, Lecturer in Music and Audio Visual Studies.

1985-88. Royal Academy of Music (London) Professor of Jazz Studies (Saxophone, flute, and ensemble classes).

1992-1996 . Teacher of Flute and Saxophone at Civic Music School Calderara di Reno (Bologna, Italy)

1993-1998 Teacher of Flute at Civic Music School, Gattatico, (Reggio Emilia, Italy).

1993-2001. Teacher of Saxophone, Flute, and Ear Training, at Accademia di Musica Moderna Modena, Italy.

1995-present Assistant Examiner in music for International Baccalaureate Organisation.

1999-present - Conductor and Artistic Director of Orchestra Unlimited; an ensemble of talented students from all over North Italy, presenting a modern eclectic repertoire from rock to jazz.

2000-present - Teacher of Saxophone, Flute, Ear Training, and Composition for M.A.T. Verona and Villafranca, Italy.

Geoff Warren also teaches at the Music Experience summer course organised by M.A.T.- three days of full immersion- performance and recording, in the countryside outside of Verona, to prepare students for the world of music. He also runs periodic Jazz Flute Master courses in collaboration with M.A.T.

Jazz Flute Summer School
Villafranca, (near Verona) Italy. An annual event consisting of long weekend of jazz flute; Friday to Sunday. See M.A.T. website (links) for precise dates.

This course is aimed at flautists with a certain command of the instrument, who want to develop their improvising skills and get to know jazz style and phrasing; from fusion to blues, from bebop to latin.

The course is divided into three sections corresponding to the morning, afternoon and evening sessions.
1) “Jazz is good for you.”
Tone production, embouchure, use of the tongue and the voice. Jazz phrasing and swing.

2) “Tools for the job.”
Jazz theory and analysis: the modes, chords and scales.
Technical exercises.
A creative approach to daily study.
Developing melodic creativity.
Improvising riffs and fills.

3) “Doing it.”
Repertoire and Jam Session with rhythm section. Recording in studio.