Born in Bensheim, Germany Mr. Mueller has helped shape the orchestral training programs of distinguished musical institutions in the United States and Canada. After studying conducting, composition, piano, trumpet, and viola in Frankfurt, Mr. Mueller became director of the chamber music department for Radio Stuttgart at the age of nineteen and was founder and conductor of the celebrated Radio Stuttgart Chamber Choir. Two years later, he served as conductor of opera and operetta for the Heidelberg Theater, where he also founded and conducted an orchestra for dependents of United States military forces stationed there.
Emigrating to Canada in 1951, Mr. Mueller worked extensively for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as conductor of opera, ballet, and symphonic presentations. In 1958, he became teacher and conductor at the Montreal Conservatory. He later served as director of the Victoria Symphony and founder and dean of the Victoria School of Music. Mr. Mueller was a guest professor at the Moscow State Conservatory in 1963 and toured the Republics of the former Soviet Union in 1968 and 1970, conducting the Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Riga symphonies. He has conducted in every major city in Canada and has had guest appearances with the Scottish National Orchestra; the Krakow Philharmonic; and the National Symphony, Atlanta, Detroit, St. Louis and other United States orchestras.
Maestro Mueller has taught at the Yale University School of Music, University of Wisconsin-Madison, the American Choral Foundation's Summer Institute, the Aspen Music Festival, the American Symphony Orchestra League's conducting seminars, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute. He has trained conductors of major orchestras, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra ,Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, St. Louis Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony, Swedish National Orchestra, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic, Auckland (New Zealand) Philharmonia and Santa Fe Opera. His former students are a virtual Who’s Who of young and established conductors: Alan Gilbert, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Sarah Ioannides, Paavo Järvi, Jahja Ling, Rossen Milanov, Raymond Harvey, and many others who currently hold Music Director and Guest Conductor positions across the world.
