Robert Moon

Robert Moon is a classical music journalist who has written for Strings magazine and Audiophile Audition. He has more than 10 years of management experience as an administrator of performing arts organizations and is the author of an internationally recognized book on London/Decca classical records.

Articles by this Author

Unsung Heroes: Music@Menlo's Interns - Article
July 6, 2010

Wu Han coaching students<br/>Photos by Tristan CookWhat happens behind the scenes at Music@Menlo, the summer chamber music festival and institute that begins its eighth season on the Peninsula on July 23, is as revealing of the festival’s essence as the musical events themselves.

Live-Opera Movies:
A Vital New Art Form - Article
October 6, 2009

“We feel that a performance of an opera shown in movie theaters,” said Giovanni Cozzi, managing partner of Emerging Pictures, a distributor of opera movies from Europe, “is a new art form.” And it is. Advances in digitalized computer technology, as well as camera placement and movement used in the videography of opera, have synthesized live performance and film into the opera-movie, in a way that may have been impossible only a few years ago.

Channeling Mendelssohn - Article
July 6, 2009

“It’s easy to like chamber music because it’s a conversation between a small number of musicians — and everyone knows what talking with a small group of friends is like,” said violinist Simin Ganatra of the Pacifica Quartet, which makes its first appearance at Music@Menlo, the three-week chamber music festival that starts its seventh season on July 17.

Growth You Can Hear - Article
July 15, 2008

"In chamber music, you play the way you are. Are you generous and giving? Are you responding to your friend's suggestions?

Fast-tracking a New Quartet - Article
July 24, 2007

The cellist David Finckel remembers the first time he heard the Escher String Quartet. It was on an audition DVD. Intrigued, he arranged to watch them play. "I thought, 'Wow, they are very young, but they sound good. We can work with them,' " says Finckel, who codirects the summer festival Music@Menlo with his wife, the pianist Wu Han. "So we accepted them for a two-week residency the Emerson Quartet does at Stony Brook University [in New York]."
What struck Finckel was their technical proficiency, both as individuals and as an ensemble.

Fast-tracking a New Quartet - Article
July 17, 2007

The cellist David Finckel remembers the first time he heard the Escher String Quartet. It was on an audition DVD. Intrigued, he arranged to watch them play. "I thought, 'Wow, they are very young, but they sound good. We can work with them,' " says Finckel, who codirects the summer festival Music@Menlo with his wife, the pianist Wu Han. "So we accepted them for a two-week residency the Emerson Quartet does at Stony Brook University [in New York]."
What struck Finckel was their technical proficiency, both as individuals and as an ensemble.