Colin Eatock
Colin Eatock is a Canadian composer, musicologist and journalist who lives in Toronto, Canada.
Life and Career
Colin Timothy Eatock was born in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1958, and attended the University of Western Ontario, McMaster University and he University of Toronto, from which he received degrees in composition and musicology.
Eatock's music has been performed in Canada, the US 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 (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 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 US and the UK.
He has also written three books: Mendelssohn and Victorian England, Remembering Glenn Gould, and Music After the Millennium.
Choral Compositions
- In the Bleak Mid-Winter (1998)
- Cast Off All Doubtful Care (2012
- Four Choruses From “The Persians” (2014)
- Out Of My Deeper Heart (2015)
- Four Elizabethan Songs About Love (2016-2018)
- Two Poems by Walt Whitman (2017)
- Five Poems From the Great War (2018)
- Ode To Remembrance (2018)
- Three Psalms (2018)
- Benedictus es: Alleluia (2018)
- Three Poems by Amy Lowell (2018)
- Ex Lamentationes (2019)
- Blake's "Seasons" (2019)
- O Virgo Prudentissima (2019)
- O Magna Res (2019)
- Three American Poems About Love (2020)
- Motetti de la Corona (2020)
- Fragments from "De Profundis" (2021)
- The Lord is Risen! (2021)
- Hosanna filio David (2022)
- O Magnum Mysterium (2023)
- Lost Star (2023)