Colin Eatock

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

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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.

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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