Having graduated in Music at Cambridge University, Geoffrey taught at Maidstone Grammar School, and Bristol Grammar School where he was Head of Music.

After leaving Bristol, he joined the Church Missionary Society,working in Hong Kong with choirs and orchestras. Whilst still with CMS he returned to England to become Master of the Choristers at Bradford Cathedral, coupled with a part time lectureship at Leeds University.

A move from Bradford to Birmingham followed, to the CMS College at Crowther Hall in Selly Oak, Birmingham. It was during this time he became Director of Music of Kidderminster Choral Society and in 1990, St Michael's Chamber Choir, now relabelled, Wolverhampton Chamber Choir.

In 1994 Geoffrey became Director of Studies and Outreach with the Royal School of Church Music where he In 1998 and again in 2008 he organised the music for the Lambeth Conference of Bishops in Canterbury, which included two BBC broadcasts. In 2000 he conducted a BBC Millenium Service in St Paul's Cathedral.

In 2000, for his outstanding contribution to Church Music, he was given its highest award, that of Fellow (FRSCM), which he received in Bristol Cathedral, and by way of dedication, conducted a choir concert in Wolverhampton later the same day.

In 2003 Geoffrey undertooke, by invitation, a lecture tour in Pakinstan and in November conducted the RSCM Millenium Choir, in the presence of the Queen, at the annual Festival of Remembrance at the Albert Hall in London. A similar event took him to Nigeria recently.

Now as a freelance musician, he combines his lecturing, workshops, conducting and examining activities, both at home and abroad. Recent visits include Malaysia, and Australia. He continues to work for the RSCM including their annual Summer School. He also runs a successful youth group, the Wyre Forest Young Voices which has achieved success in the Sainsbury Choir of the Year competition. His regular choirs were thus able to perform Chilcott's Salisbury Vespers in 2010, a work written for three choirs.

It is when he takes to the piano at social events where he also excels, unloading from memory his extensive repertoire of Gershwin, Fats Waller and the like.

There is further information about Wolverhampton Chamber Choir and its Repertoire under his baton