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

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, Ontario.

Life and career

Colin Timothy Eatock was born in

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, in 1958, and attended the

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and

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, 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

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, which released a CD of his compositions entitled "Colin Eatock: Chamber Music" in 2012 on its Centrediscs label. 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 ''

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'' newspaper, and also the ''National Post'', ''

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'', the ''

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'', the ''Kansas City Star'' and the ''

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'', as well as numerous magazines and journals in Canada, the US and the UK. He has also written three books: the first is on the life of

Felix Mendelssohn Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 18094 November 1847), widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic music, Romantic period. Mendelssohn's compositions inc ...

, the second is a collection of interviews about the pianist

Glenn Gould Glenn Herbert Gould (; né Gold; 25 September 19324 October 1982) was a Canadian classical pianist. He was among the most famous and celebrated pianists of the 20th century, renowned as an interpreter of the keyboard works of Johann Sebastian ...

Colin Eatock's new book Remembering Glenn Gould is a portrait composed from all angles
/ref> 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.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Eatock, Colin Canadian non-fiction writers Canadian male composers Living people Journalists from Toronto Writers from Hamilton, Ontario Writers from Toronto Musicians from Hamilton, Ontario Musicians from Toronto Canadian music critics Year of birth missing (living people) Mendelssohn scholars