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

Life and career

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).

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

Books

• Eatock, Colin, "Mendelssohn and Victorian England." Ashgate Press (London, England), 2009
• Eatock, Colin, "Remembering Glenn Gould." Penumbra Press (Newcastle, Ontario), 2012.

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

• Official website

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