Colin Eatock
Canadian composer, writer and journalist

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

Life and career

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] It contains six of his compositions: "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 Lotus-Eaters" (2000).

In 2023, Centrediscs released a second CD of Eatock's music, Colin Eatock: Choral and Orchestral Music. It contains a chamber-orchestra arrangement of his "Ashes of Soldiers" (2010-2012) and "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.

In 2025, Eatock's board game Schooled was published under an anagrammatic pseudonym by Analog Game Studios of Toronto.[15]

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.

References

  1. ^ "Colin Eatock". Western Music. Archived from the original on 16 January 2013. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
  2. ^ Eatock, Colin (1984). New Music Concerts of Toronto: A Critical Study.
  3. ^ "Summer Alumni News". University of Toronto Faculty of Music. 19 July 2012. Archived from the original on 30 July 2012. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
  4. ^ "Canadian Music Centre". Retrieved 29 March 2013.
  5. ^ Garrick, Daniel (7 November 2012). "Colin Eatock: Chamber Music". DanielGarrick.com. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
  6. ^ "Search: Colin Eatock". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
  7. ^ Eatock, Colin (27 August 2005). "Mystic Composer in a Magical Forest". The New York Times. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
  8. ^ "Search: Colin Eatock". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
  9. ^ "ICM Newsletter vol. 2, no. 1: Reviews". University of Toronto. 28 September 2001. Archived from the original on 28 May 2013. Retrieved 27 March 2013.
  10. ^ "Some Recent LRC Contributors – The Literary Review of Canada". Reviewcanada.ca. 25 September 2008. Retrieved 27 March 2013.
  11. ^ Eatock, Colin (2009). "Lost Genius: The Story of a Forgotten Musical Maverick (review)". University of Toronto Quarterly. 78: 422–423. doi:10.1353/utq.0.0543. S2CID 162210829. Retrieved 27 March 2013.
  12. ^ Eatock, Colin. "Does Music Make You Smarter?". Listen. Retrieved 27 March 2013.
  13. ^ Project MUSE – Mendelssohn and Victorian England (review)
  14. ^ Colin Eatock's new book Remembering Glenn Gould is a portrait composed from all angles
  15. ^ "Analog Game Studios". Retrieved 2 September 2025.
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