As Associate Professor of Music, Dr. Alicia Mueller serves as the Chairperson of the Music Education Division at Towson University.  Among her responsibilities as the Elementary and Early Childhood General Music Specialist, Dr. Mueller supervises student interns; teaches the vocal-general P-8 methods/foundation courses for music education majors; teaches the elementary education music methods courses for non-music majors; teaches specialized courses in various areas of music education, such as Orff Schulwerk techniques; serves on graduate theses committees; serves as academic advisor to music majors; and contributes to the departmental recruitment of students. She has served as the Faculty Advisor for the MENC (Music Educators National Conference) Collegiate Chapter, and serves as a liaison with the regional public and private schools and instructional settings.  She has also served as the President of the MMEA (Maryland General Music Teachers Association), as well as the Collegiate Membership Chair.

Dr. Mueller received her Ed.D. from Arizona State University in Tempe; M.S. from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign; B.S. from Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville; Orff Schulwerk Teacher's Certificate from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia; and has studied the Dalcroze method with Bob Abramson at the University of Illinois.

As a university professor, Dr. Mueller has served as the Music Education Coordinator at Washington State University in Pullman, as well as Adjunct Professor of Music at Whitworth College in Spokane, Washington. As an elementary/general music specialist, she has taught in the public schools of the Washington, D.C. and Phoenix, Arizona metropolitan areas. As a choral singer, she has sung with the Oratorio Society of Washington, D.C., the leading chorus with the National Symphony Orchestra.

Dr. Mueller is an active clinician at national, regional, and local levels, presenting workshops and in-service presentations on topics ranging from movement and music instruction, music for young children, and the integration of music and the arts across the curriculum, to the incorporation of multiculturalism in music education, Orff Schulwerk techniques, and teacher training. She has published articles in MENC journals ranging from Teaching Music and General Music Today to the Maryland and Washington state music education journals and The Orff Echo.

Office: CA 3093
Phone: 410-704-4264
email: aamueller@towson.edu