Colin Eatock is a Canadian composer, writer and journalist who lives in Toronto, Ontario.
Colin Timothy Eatock was born in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1958, and attended the University of Western Ontario, [1] McMaster University [2] and The University of Toronto, [3] from which he received a PhD in musicology.
Eatock's music has been performed in Canada, the US and Europe. He is an associate member of the Canadian Music Centre, [4] which released a CD of his compositions entitled "Colin Eatock: Chamber Music" in 2012 on its Centrediscs label. [5] This CD contains six of his compositions: his Ashes of Soldiers (2010), Suite for Piano (1995), Tears of Gold (2000), Three Songs from Blake's "America" (1987), Three Canzonas for Brass Quartet (1991), and The Lotos-Eaters (2000).
In 2023, Centrediscs released a second CD of Eatock's music, "Colin Eatock: Choral and Orchestral Music." This CD contains a chamber-orchestra arrangement of his Ashes of Soldiers (2010-2012) and his Sinfonietta (1999), also for chamber orchestra; as well as eight of his choral works: The Lord Is Risen! (2021), In the Bleak Mid-Winter (1998), Cast Off All Doubtful Care (2012), Three Poems by Amy Lowell (2018), Three Psalms (2018), Benedictus es: Alleluia (2018), Two Poems by Walt Whitman (2017) and Out of My Deeper Heart (2015).
As a music journalist and critic, Eatock has written for Toronto's The Globe and Mail newspaper, [6] and also the National Post, The New York Times, [7] the Houston Chronicle, [8] the Kansas City Star and the San Antonio Express News, as well as numerous magazines and journals [9] [10] [11] [12] in Canada, the US and the UK.
He has also written two books: the first is on the life of Felix Mendelssohn, [13] and the second is a collection of interviews about the pianist Glenn Gould. [14]