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
Three Songs from "The Prophet" (2016)
Colin Eatock
For mezzo-soprano and piano
Two Pieces for Recorder and Harpsichord
Colin Eatock
For tenor recorder and harpsichord
Ashes of Soldiers (2010)
Colin Eatock
For soprano, clarinet (or viola) and piano.
Four Song Offerings (2020)
Colin Eatock
For soprano and string quartet
Four Song Offerings (2020)
Colin Eatock
For soprano and string quartet
Trio for Woodwinds (2023)
Colin Eatock
For oboe, clarinet and bassoon
Benedictus es: Alleluia (2018)
Colin Eatock
For SATB choir
Requiescat (2024)
Colin Eatock
For soprano, violin, cello and theorbo
Four Poems by Hart Crane (2024)
Colin Eatock
For tenor and harp
Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano (2000)
Colin Eatock
"The Lotos-Eaters"
Suite for Piano (1995)
Colin Eatock
For piano solo
Tears of Gold (2000)
Colin Eatock
For mezzo-soprano, cello and harpsichord
"Canterbury" for Cello and Piano (2004)
Colin Eatock
For cello and piano
Three Canzonas for Brass Quartet (1991)
Colin Eatock
For two trumpets and two trombones
Dance No. 4 for Saxophones (2004)
Colin Eatock
for saxophone quartet
Souvenir of Triton (1990)
Colin Eatock
For violin and piano
Three Songs from Blake's America (1987)
Colin Eatock
For bass-baritone and piano
O Magnum Mysterium (2023)
Colin Eatock
For SATB choir, with soprano saxophone
The Lord is Risen! (2021)
Colin Eatock
For SATB choir, with trumpet
Motetti de la Corona (2020)
Colin Eatock
For a-cappella SATB choir
Three American Poems About Love (2020)
Colin Eatock
For a-cappella SATB choir
O Magna Res (2019)
Colin Eatock
For a-cappella SSSAAA vocal ensemble
Three Poems by Amy Lowell (2018)
Colin Eatock
For a-cappella SATB choir
Three Psalms (2018)
Colin Eatock
For a-cappella SATB choir
Two Poems by Walt Whitman (2017)
Colin Eatock
For a-cappella SATB choir
Four Elizabethan Songs About Love (2018)
Colin Eatock
For a-cappella SATB choir
Out of My Deeper Heart (2015)
Colin Eatock
For SATB choir, with cello
Cast Off All Doubtful Care (2012)
Colin Eatock
For a-cappella SATB choir, with tenor solo
In the Bleak Mid-Winter (1998)
Colin Eatock
For a-cappella SATB choir