Timothy Sullivan (composer)

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Timothy Richard Sullivan (born December 16, 1954 in Ottawa ) is a Canadian composer and music teacher.

Sullivan was a student of composition with Samuel Dolin and studied at the University of Toronto with Walter Buczynski and John Beckwith . From 1979 to 1989 he taught at the Royal Conservatory in Toronto, where he was director of the composition program from 1985 to 1989. In 1986 he founded the Contemporary Music Ensemble . From 1989–90 he was visiting professor at the University of Victoria , after which he was composer in residence at the Canadian Opera Company and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education . In 2001 he was the keynote speaker of theAsia Pacific Orchestra's Conference in Australia.

After performing chamber music, Sullivan became known in the late 1980s with several operas: Tomorrow and Tomorrow (based on his own libretto, premiered in New York in 1986) and Dreamplay (based on August Strindberg's drama) and Florence (libretto by Anne McPherson , premiered in 1992). In the 1990s he worked with Canadian dance and ballet choreographers such as William Douglas , Lee Eisler , Claudia Moore and John Alleyne, and Indian choreographers such as Menaka Thakkar , Chandralehka , Lata Pada and Hari Krishnan . In 2003 he published the book Creativity and Music Education with Lee Willingham .

Works

  • Scherzo Brilliante for accordion (recorded by John Torcello ), 1978
  • Lentos Crepúsculos , four songs for baritone and piano (commissioned for Donald Bell ), 1979
  • Trillo for cello (recorded by John Torcello), 1981
  • Frieze for chamber ensemble, 1982
  • Music From Nowhere for chamber ensemble and tape, 1984
  • Tomorrow and Tomorrow , Opera, 1986
  • Dream Play , Opera, 1988
  • Florence: The Lady with the Lamp , Opera, 1991
  • Autograph , dance music
  • La Zone d'Or , dance music
  • Deep West , dance music
  • Claudia Moore , dance music
  • The Archeology of Karl , ballet
  • Adrian (Angel on Earth) , ballet
  • In the Course of Sleeping , Ballet
  • entre-deux , ballet
  • Namaskar , ballet
  • Cosmos , ballet
  • Revealed by Fire , ballet
  • Black and White in Color , ballet
  • Joséphine , opera
  • The Trial , opera
  • Between Earth and Sky for choir and percussion, 2003
  • The agony of yearning for string orchestra, 2006

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personal data
SURNAME Sullivan, Timothy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sullivan, Timothy Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Ottawa