Colin Eatock

Colin Eatock is a Canadian composer, writer and journalist who lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Life and career

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 three books: the first is on the life of Felix Mendelssohn,^[13] the second is a collection of interviews about the pianist Glenn Gould^[14] and the third, Music After the Millennium, is a collection of his music journalism.

Published works

Books

• Eatock, Colin, "Mendelssohn and Victorian England." Ashgate Press (London, England), 2009
• Eatock, Colin, "Remembering Glenn Gould." Penumbra Press (Newcastle, Ontario), 2012.
• Eatock, Colin, "Music After the Millennium." published independently, 2024.

Articles

• Eatock, Colin. "Classical Music Criticism at the Globe and Mail: 1936–2000." Canadian University Music Review (Canadian University Music Society) 24/2: 8–28.
• Eatock, Colin. "The Crystal Palace Concerts: Canon Formation and the English Musical Renaissance." 19th Century Music (University of California) 34/1: 87–105.
• Eatock, Colin. "Mendelssohn's Conversion to Judaism: An English Perspective." Mendelssohn Perspectives (Ashgate Press) 2012: 63–79.