Eric Siblin

Eric Siblin, an award-winning Montreal-based journalist, is the author of The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece. Part biography, part music history and part literary mystery, the book is fueled by the transcendent power of one of the world’s most successful pieces of music.

Siblin studied at Concordia University in Montreal, receiving an M.A. in History, before coming of age journalistically at The Glengarry News and the Standard Freeholder. He then worked as a reporter and editor at the Montreal bureau of The Canadian Press from 1989 to 1996. Following that, he joined The Montreal Gazette as a staff reporter and pop music critic.

He made the transition to television in 2002, directing and writing the documentary Word Slingers, which explores the subculture of competitive Scrabble tournaments. He also co-directed the documentary In Search of Sleep and has written for a wide variety of magazines.