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.