Aside from a busy acting career spanning 40 years, including Broadway, the Stratford and Shaw Festivals, feature films and television, Colin Fox made his concert debut in 1974 in the title role of Lelio by Berlioz with Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony. He has also appeared on the concert stage in a variety of musical settings including performances with pianists James Anagnoson, Leslie Kinton and Anton Kuerti, The Hannaford Street Silver Band, The Penderecki Quartet, baritone Marc Pedrotti, guitarist Simon Wynberg, and more. Colin has narrated a number of documentaries for the CBC, National Geographic, and Discovery Channel.
He is the recipient of the Tyrone Guthrie Award (Stratford Festival, 1966), a Genie Award (1971) for Best Actor, a Juno Award (1994) for Best Children’s Recording for his title role in “Tchaikovsky Discovers America”, and six Peabody Awards as Actor in various CBC Radio Dramas (1972-1992). He has been a Nominee for both Emmy and Gemini awards.

He has recently performed with the Gryphon Trio as narrator in”Giants in Music, Friends in Letters—Brahms & Dvorak”, with the Toronto Symphony in “Tales of the Netsilik”by Ray Luedeke in March 2008 and is working with him on the premiere of “Into the Labyrinth”with Anagnoson and Kinton scheduled for a 2009 opening in New York City.

On the big screen he has appeared with Sylvester Stallone and Claire Bloom in Universal’s “Daylight”; Chris Farley and David Spade in “Tommy Boy”;and with Chris Rock in “Down to Earth.”
On television as Dr. Hendricks in “psi Factor, and in A & E’s “Nero Wolfe” with Tim Hutton and Maury Chaykin as the redoubtable butler, Fritz.

In March, 2006 Mr. Fox portrayed the murderous husband in Tolstoy’s short story “The Kreutzer Sonata” with Beethoven’s stormy duo for piano and violin transcribed for string quartet and played by The Penderecki Quartet with cellist Antonio Lysy at Music Toronto. This was also recorded for broadcast by CBC. In November 2006, Mr. Fox again accompany The Penderecki Quartet in repeats of this well received concert at Windsor and Niagara-On-The-Lake. Guelph Musicfest is excited to present The Kreutzer Project.