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===Chapel choir=== [[File:Choir Loft at Trinity College Toronto.jpg|upright|thumb|The choir loft]] The Trinity College Chapel Choir, which grew out of the Trinity Choral Club established in the 1890s,<ref name="Reid"/> consists of about 30 singers of mixed voice, selected by audition. Trinity College awards [[choral scholar]]ships to roughly one third of the choir, tenable for private voice coaching, from an endowment of $125,000.<ref name="TrinityMusic" /> Since the construction of the chapel in 1955, the Chapel Choir has sung an [[Evening Prayer (Anglican)|Evensong]] service every Wednesday night during term, in the tradition of [[Oxford University|Oxford]] and [[Cambridge University|Cambridge]] choral foundations.<ref name="TrinityMusic" /> The Chapel Choir sings from the loft at the rear of the chapel, approximately {{convert|20|ft|m}} above the main chapel floor, where the [[Casavant Frères|Casavant]] [[pipe organ]] is also located. Accompaniment is provided by the [[Organ Scholar|Bevan Organ Scholar]], typically an undergraduate music student, who is appointed for three years and paid from a $100,000 endowment.<ref name="TrinityMusic">{{cite web|url=http://www.trinity.utoronto.ca/About_Trinity/Chapel/Music.htm|title=Music At Trinity College Chapel|website=www.trinity.utoronto.ca}}</ref> A Director of Music conducts the choir, mentors the organ scholar, and occasionally plays the organ during services. Since 2006, the Director of Music has been Prof. [[John Tuttle (musician)|John Tuttle]], who is also Professor of Organ at the Faculty of Music, sometime Choirmaster and Organist at [[St. Thomas's Anglican Church (Toronto)|St. Thomas's Anglican Church]] (from 1989 to 2016),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://stthomas.on.ca/former-organists-choirmasters/|title=Former Organists and Choirmasters {{!}} St. Thomas's Anglican Church, Toronto|website=stthomas.on.ca|language=en|access-date=2017-09-25}}</ref> and conducted the Exultate Chamber Singers until his retirement in 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.music.utoronto.ca/faculty/faculty_members/instructors_s_to_z/john_tuttle.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101128073606/http://www.music.utoronto.ca/faculty/faculty_members/instructors_s_to_z/john_tuttle.htm|title=University of Toronto, Faculty of Music, Faculty Members: John Tuttle, Professor of Organ|archive-date=November 28, 2010}}</ref>
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