Summary
Colin Eatock is a Canadian composer, writer and journalist who lives in Toronto, Ontario.
Life and career edit
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]
Published works edit
Books edit
- Eatock, Colin, "Mendelssohn and Victorian England." Ashgate Press (London, England), 2009
- Eatock, Colin, "Remembering Glenn Gould." Penumbra Press (Newcastle, Ontario), 2012.
Articles edit
- 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 edit
- ^ "Colin Eatock". Western Music. Archived from the original on 16 January 2013. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
- ^ Eatock, Colin (1984). New Music Concerts of Toronto: A Critical Study.
- ^ "Summer Alumni News". University of Toronto Faculty of Music. 19 July 2012. Archived from the original on 30 July 2012. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
- ^ "Canadian Music Centre". Retrieved 29 March 2013.
- ^ Garrick, Daniel (7 November 2012). "Colin Eatock: Chamber Music". DanielGarrick.com. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
- ^ "Search: Colin Eatock". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
- ^ Eatock, Colin (27 August 2005). "Mystic Composer in a Magical Forest". The New York Times. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
- ^ "Search: Colin Eatock". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Some Recent LRC Contributors – The Literary Review of Canada". Reviewcanada.ca. 25 September 2008. Retrieved 27 March 2013.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Eatock, Colin. "Does Music Make You Smarter?". Listen. Retrieved 27 March 2013.
- ^ Project MUSE – Mendelssohn and Victorian England (review)
- ^ Colin Eatock's new book Remembering Glenn Gould is a portrait composed from all angles
External links edit
- Official website