Colin Touchin was educated at
William Hulme's Grammar School and
Keble College, Oxford. Touchin taught for eight years at
Chetham's School of Music, and for two years was Head of Composition. For over a decade he was Director of Music at the
University of Warwick. While in the UK he played in a piano duo with his friend
Peter Donohoe. In 2005 he founded and conducted the Spires Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus in Coventry, made up of professional and skilled amateur musicians from the Coventry and Warwickshire area. Spires recorded a CD of his compositions in 2012. He also conducted West Midland Wind Orchestra In Frankfurt he was Chief Conductor of the
Lufthansa Orchestra, an ensemble made up of pilots, flight attendants, technicians and office workers who make music in their spare time. In Hong Kong he was musical director of the Hong Kong Welsh Male Voice Choir, the a capella female choir Grace Notes, and guest conductor of the
City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong and Tak-Ming Philharmonic Winds. His home was in Warsaw, where he died of pancreatic cancer. ==Selected works==