Colin Eatock


Colin Eatock is a Canadian composer, author and journalist who lives in Toronto, Ontario.
He was born in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1958, and attended the University of Western Ontario, McMaster University and The University of Toronto, from which he received a PhD in musicology.
Eatock's music has been performed in Canada, the USA and Europe. He is an associate member of the Canadian Music Centre, 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, Suite for Piano, Tears of Gold, Three Songs from Blake's "America", Three Canzonas for Brass Quartet, and The Lotos-Eaters.
Eatock has written for Toronto's The Globe and Mail newspaper, and also the National Post, the New York Times, the Houston Chronicle, the Kansas City Star and the San Antonio Express News, as well as numerous magazines and journals in Canada, the USA and the UK.
He has also written two books: the first is on the life of Felix Mendelssohn, and the second is a collection of interviews about the pianist Glenn Gould.

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