ABOUT US
Voces Florium is a dynamic and versatile vocal ensemble founded in 2024 by friends Lucy Miller-White and Heather Fuller. Voces Florium unites professional singers who share a passion for expressive and engaging ensemble performance.
The group made its debut at the Flower Festival at St Mary’s Church, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, and has since developed a diverse repertoire that spans centuries of choral tradition from the intricate counterpoint of the Renaissance to the rich harmonies of the modern era.
The singers of Voces Florium are all professionally trained musicians, many of whom have completed postgraduate study at leading UK conservatoires. This shared foundation gives the ensemble remarkable versatility and musical sensitivity in both solo and choral contexts.
Based in London and Hertfordshire, Voces Florium works closely with Trevor Hughes and Rufus Frowde, who both direct and accompany the group, shaping its expressive sound and distinctive musical identity.
In addition to public performances, the ensemble appears at private events and special occasions; sharing the beauty, intimacy, and emotional depth of live choral music with audiences across the UK.
A refined chamber vocal ensemble, celebrating the beauty and diversity of music throughout the centuries.
Artistic Directors
Rufus Frowde
A freelance conductor, organist, pianist and composer, Rufus was Organist and Assistant Director at the Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace from 2003 – 2023 as well as a long-serving Musical Director of Surrey Youth Choir. He became Artistic Director of The English Chamber Choir in January 2024. He also holds conducting posts with VIVAMUS Chamber Choir, Dacorum Community Choir (founder) and Hertfordshire Music Service (most notably as Artistic Director and Conductor of the Schools’ Galas at the Royal Albert Hall since 2014). He is also the Accompanist of Hertfordshire Chorus, one of the UK’s finest symphonic choirs.
Rufus studied music as an Organ Scholar at Merton College, Oxford University. He subsequently became Organ Scholar of Worcester Cathedral and undertook prize-winning postgraduate study in Choral Direction and Church Music at the Royal Academy of Music.
Rufus has always maintained a versatile approach to music-making, seeking to ensure that barriers to quality music-making are overcome. As such, alongside his work as a professional musician, he nurtures the music at his local primary school (Samuel Lucas JMI School, Hitchin) as well as working as an animateur for the Chorister Outreach Project at St Albans Cathedral.
Rufus’ performances have included numerous UK cathedrals, Westminster Abbey, La Madeleine (Paris), Kaunas Cathedral, St Thomas’s Leipzig, St Paul’s Basilica (Rome), Cologne Cathedral, Haarlem Cathedral and Longwood Gardens (Pennsylvania). He has worked with musicians and performers including Emma Johnson, Crispian Steele Perkins, Kiri te Kanawa, José Carreras, Ian McMillan and Michael Rosen. He works with numerous orchestras as a guest conductor including The Hanover Band, Brandenburg Sinfonia, Southbank Sinfonia and the Brandenburg Baroque Soloists in collaboration with his choirs.
Rufus appears as a conductor, organist and composer on the Signum Classics, Resonus Classics, Diversions and Divine Art record labels and his work is frequently broadcast on national radio and television. Rufus was awarded Her Majesty’s Diamond and Platinum Jubilee Medals as well as a 2023 Coronation Medal.
Trevor Hughes
Trevor Hughes is a Graduate of the Royal College of Music (where he studied organ, piano, and viola), winning the Colles Prize, and an Associate of the Royal College of Organists, winning the Doris Wookey Prize.
As an organist, he has performed on the organs in Birmingham Symphony Hall, Leeds Town Hall, the Royal Albert Hall, the Royal Festival Hall, and St. John’s, Smith Square, London, St. David’s Hall, Cardiff, and on the cathedral organs in Canterbury, Ely, Gibraltar, Norwich, St. Alban’s, St. Asaph, and Southwark. He has also performed on major organs in America, France (including Rouen Cathedral), Austria (including Salzburg Dom Cathedral), and Germany (including the Elisabethkirche, and University Church in Marburg).
His lifelong experience in church music recently reached something of a milestone, when, in 2022, he retired after 27 very happy years as Director of Music at Holy Saviour Church in Hitchin. In 2003, he took the Church Choir to Barbados where it performed both in concerts, and broadcasts on Caribbean Radio and Television. Later, in the same year, he formed a second, female voice, choir in the church, The Radcliffe Singers, which sang a wide range of sacred and secular music. Both choirs recorded two CDs, and toured, both in the UK and also to Nuits St. Georges, in France.
He has accompanied recitals in the Purcell Room, the Wigmore Hall, and on BBC Radio 3, as well as in many music clubs over the country, and for over ten years he contributed regularly to BBC Schools Radio music programmes, as keyboards player, musical director, and arranger. He has also made a number of educational recordings for Lindsay Music, and Faber Music.
Equally at home in a wide range of musical styles, Trevor has conducted many musicals in the theatre, and he has also played keyboards in a number of West End shows. His freelance work as both accompanist and choral conductor has taken him on numerous trips to the USA, as well as to Austria, Germany, France, Switzerland, and Holland.
For some 10 years or so, until 2001, Trevor was Musical Director of the Stevenage Choral Society, whom he directed in many large-scale choral works, including a number of first performances. He directed the choir on concert tours to Austria and Germany, and in 1996, on its first tour of the USA. In a concert with the choir in 2000, he performed as soloist, with his wife Gillian, in the première of the Double Concerto for Clarinet, Organ, and Strings, a work written for them by Douglas Coombes.
He was also formerly Musical Director of the north London female voice choir "Jubilate!", for whom he has written a number of jazz-inspired arrangements.
His other musical work with children has encompassed teaching piano, organ, and theory, and adjudicating music festivals, both at home and abroad (including Hong Kong). From 2008-2020, he also co-adjudicated the annual National Youth Choral Competition at the Royal Festival Hall, and the Barbican Centre, in aid of Barnardo’s, for which organisation he has also performed regularly in fund-raising concerts, including annual concerts on the organs of both the Royal Albert Hall, and the Royal Festival Hall.