Teacher Bios

Ene Lomp

Ene Lomp was a student at Northern Secondary school. After receiving her Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Education from the University of Western Ontario, she returned to Northern to teach music and has been doing so for approximately 30 years, 16 of them as Head of Music. She currently teaches String and Band classes and directs the Concert Band, String Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra, String Quartet and Saxophone Ensemble. She formed the Northern Music Association in 1997 and continues to be their staff advisor. She has taken an active role in program and curriculum development and revision, organized trips and fundraising for the music department annually along with coordinating a minimum of 3 concerts per year at Northern and many others around the community. She initiated the Blue and Gold Note Awards and the Music Banquet in 1997. She produced the musical, "A Chorus Line" (1995-1996), was musical director for the school’s production of "West Side Story" (2003-2004) and "Guys and Dolls" (2006-2007).

Ene also has her business, special education and guidance part 1 qualifications. In the past, she has taught English, Business and a unit in the Gifted program at Northern.

During her tenure at Northern, the Music Department has received numerous awards at Kiwanis and the Ontario Vocal and Jazz Festival. The Concert Band was a national finalist in CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada contest, her students appeared on the CBC program "Smart Risk” and the Concert Band was selected to perform on the TV show "High Notes". Northern’s ensembles have been selected to perform annually at the T.S.S.M.T.A. city-wide concert at Massey Hall. She received an award from the Director of Education for “outstanding dedication to teaching in music” (1999).

Former President (2005-2007) and Vice-President (2003-2004) of the Toronto Secondary Music Teachers’ Association, Ene has maintained her commitment to the association and music education in Toronto throughout her time with the Board. Additionally, she was violinist with the East York Symphony and the String Ensemble "Lyra Borealis"”, music director for the Ontario Estonian Heritage Folk Music Orchestra and the Estonian World Festival for the "Kungla" dancers. She has performed twice at the International Song Festival in Estonia, one of the world’s largest, and she sings in the Toronto academic organizations’ choir "Oobik".

Timothy Sullivan

Timothy is a noted composer as well as a teacher. He has taught music at the high school level since 2004. He received his doctorate in Music Composition from the University of Toronto in 1999 and his BEd in 2004. His teachables are music and dramatic arts. He has over 15 years teaching experience, 10 of which were at the Royal Conservatory of Music. During his tenure at the Conservatory he was also Head of Composition and theory. Currently he the Principal of the OISE/UT Additional Qualifications Program for Music Teachers and a music teacher at Northern Secondary School.

At Northern he teaches Vocal Music, Guitar, Music for Computers, Film Criticism, World Music, and Credit Recovery. He has also taught Visual Art, Music for Creating, Stage Band, and is a Special Education Resource. He is involved with the annual concerts: Winterlude, All that Jazz and Tunescape, and runs the extracurricular Stage Band. In 2009 he was also the Staff Advisor to the Musical Theatre Club (who just performed “Sweeney Todd”)

He enjoys teaching at Northern because it is a creative school: there is plenty of room to explore and develop along unique and individual lines.

He began piano lessons at 15 and moved to Toronto to study composition with Samuel Dolin in 1974. At the University of Toronto he studied with Walter Buczynski and John Beckwith. He taught at the RCMT 1979-89, was director of its composition program 1985-9, and founded its Contemporary Music Ensemble in 1986. He taught composition and theory at the University of Victoria 1989-90. He has been a “composer-in-residence” with with the Canadian Opera Company, and the the Kelowna International Music Festival. In his early works Sullivan drew on an eclectic variety of styles from jazz to chance music, and from traditional harmony to serialism, before arriving at his own compositional idiom, which incorporates various elements from these disparate sources.

His works explore various media; several have been commissioned, including Lentos Crepúsculos (1979, four songs for baritone and piano) for Donald Bell, Frieze (1982, for chamber ensemble) for the Stratford Festival Ensemble, and Music From Nowhere (1984, for chamber ensemble and tape) for ARRAYMUSIC. Scherzo Brilliante (1978) and Trillo (1981) for solo accordion were recorded by John Torcello (1982, JTC 001).

He has composed works for Dance Theater of Harlem, Ballet British Columbia, les Ballets Jazz de Montreal, les Ballets de Monte Carlo, etc. and has also collaborated closely with Indian dance artists, such as Menaka Thakkar, Lata Pada, Chandralehka and Hari Krishnan. His operas have recently been performed by Opera-in-Concert in Toronto and at the University of British Columbia Music School.

Sullivan first came to widespread attention with the successful productions of his operas Tomorrow and Tomorrow (1986, premiered New York, 28 Mar 1987), and Dream Play (1988, premiered Toronto 11 May 1988), both to his own texts. Tomorrow and Tomorrow, a monodrama for soprano, chamber ensemble, and tape, was also broadcast on CBC TV 19 Feb 1989 in a performance by Iraina Neufeld. Dream Play, based on August Strindberg's play of the same name, was created during Sullivan's season (1987-8) as composer-in-residence with the COC. His opera Florence (text by Anne McPherson) was given a workshop production in 1991 in preparation for the planned premiere at the 1992 Elora Festival. Sullivan is a member of the CLComp and an associate of the Canadian Music Centre.

In his spare time Sullivan is also a painter. His paintings were featured in “Iconic Beauty” at Contact 08 and in 2009 20 of his paintings were auctioned off as a partial fundraiser for the “Learning Through The Arts” program.