Biography

Colin Eatock is a composer, music critic, author, editor and teacher who lives in Toronto, Canada. He has written works for choir, chamber ensembles, solo performers and orchestra. His first album, Colin Eatock: Chamber Music, was released on the Canadian Music Centre’s Centrediscs label in 2012. His second album, Colin Eatock: Choral and Orchestral Music, was also released by Centrediscs, in 2023.

 

For more than a decade, Eatock frequently wrote about music for Toronto’s Globe and Mail newspaper. He has also contributed to the New York Times and the Houston Chronicle, and to music periodicals in the USA, the UK and Canada. As well, he is the author of three books: Mendelssohn and Victorian England, Remembering Glenn Gould and Music After the Millennium.

 

He holds music degrees from the University of Western Ontario, McMaster University and the University of Toronto, where he has also taught.

Collection

Souvenir of Triton (1990)

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Colin Eatock

For violin and piano

Three Songs from Blake's America (1987)

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Colin Eatock

For bass-baritone and piano

O Magnum Mysterium (2023)

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Colin Eatock

For SATB choir, with soprano saxophone

The Lord is Risen! (2021)

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Colin Eatock

For SATB choir, with trumpet

Motetti de la Corona (2020)

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Colin Eatock

For a-cappella SATB choir

Three American Poems About Love (2020)

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Colin Eatock

For a-cappella SATB choir

O Magna Res (2019)

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Colin Eatock

For a-cappella SSSAAA vocal ensemble

Three Poems by Amy Lowell (2018)

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Colin Eatock

For a-cappella SATB choir

Three Psalms (2018)

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Colin Eatock

For a-cappella SATB choir

Two Poems by Walt Whitman (2017)

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Colin Eatock

For a-cappella SATB choir

Four Elizabethan Songs About Love (2018)

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Colin Eatock

For a-cappella SATB choir

Out of My Deeper Heart (2015)

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Colin Eatock

For SATB choir, with cello

Cast Off All Doubtful Care (2012)

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Colin Eatock

For a-cappella SATB choir, with tenor solo

In the Bleak Mid-Winter (1998)

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Colin Eatock

For a-cappella SATB choir

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