She is a flautist born in Holland who earned her degrees in Music Performance and Teacher of Modern and Baroque/Transverse flute at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague.
After venturing out on her professional career she has performed as a member of several orchestras and ensembles that include Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, The Attaignant Consort, The Bach Players, Concerto d’Amsterdam, Musica Antiqua Koln, Netherlands Bach Collegium and Rheinische Kantorei – Das Kleine Konzert.
She has been a member of Musica ad Rhenum since it began in 1992 and has recorded and performed with them in many concerts and on several recordings.
The recordings she has appeared on are many, but a selection of them include her as a soloist in Wilhelm Friedman Bach: Flute Sonatas, Wilbert Hazelzet – Destination London: Music for the Earl of Abingdon and Johannes Albertus Groneman: Virtuoso Rococo Flute Music from The Netherlands along with JS Bach – Easter Oratorio/the Magnificat and Yo-Yo Ma: Simply Baroque with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Ludwig Van Beethoven: Concerti 4 & 5 for Piano by Cristofori, Johann David Heinichen – Dresden Concerti, Heinichen: Lamentationes/Passionsmusik and Johann Adolf Hasse – Salve Regina with Musica Antiqua Koln, Vivaldi – Concerto Alla Rustica and Other Concerti, Blavet – Flute Sonatas, Couperin: Les Nations, Locatelli- The Complete Flute Sonatas and Locatelli – 6 Sonate A Tre Op. 5 by Musica ad Rhenum, Haydn – The Complete Piano Trios and Weber: Clarinet Quintet by Van Swieten Trio and JS Bach: Complete Chamber Music for Flute by Jed Wentz and Michael Borgstede and the 60-CD set of the complete sacred cantatas of JS Bach by Pieter Jan Leusink along with many others.
Musica Antiqua Koln Recordings
Concerto for 2 Flutes and Orchestra in G Major (Johann Joachim Quantz)
Archiv 447 644 (CD: Concerti ‘pour l’orchestra di Dresda’)
Sources:
- https://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Moonen-Marion.htm
- https://binauralhdtracks.com/artists/marian-moonen/
- https://margarethaconsort.nl/marion-moonen-traverso/?v=79cba1185463
- http://thebachplayers.org.uk/musicians
- https://www.discogs.com/artist/1111214-Marion-Moonen
- https://www.allmusic.com/artist/marion-moonen-mn0001676991/credits