Scena della Opera (1997) for piano trio
Premier performance in Fayetteville, AR 2/99 by the Boston Mountain Chamber
Players: Jeongwon Ham, piano, Rico McNeela, violin, and Stephen Gates, cello.
Additional performance 3/99 by the same group.
Echo Fantasy (1989) for violin, cello and piano, (revised 2018)
Commissioned by Steve and Betsy Highland. Performances: 4/89 in Superior, WI
by Steve Highland, Betsy Highland and Robert Mueller; 3/90 in Lawton, OK (as
part of the regional meeting of the College Music Society); 3/92 in Ft. Worth, TX
(as part of the 1992 Region VI convention of the Society of Composers, Inc.); and
11/92 in Fayetteville, AR by the Ozark Chamber Players; 6/12 by the Interlochen
Ensemble.
ROBERT K. MUELLER
COMPOSER
Emerald Passages (1995)
for orchestra
Premier performance: 10/95 by the University of Arkansas Chamber Orchestra, Rico McNeela, conducting. Additional performances: 5/96 by the Omaha Symphony, Victor Yampolsky, conducting; 10/97 by the CMU Orchestra, Carlton Woods, conducting; 11/97 by the South Dakota State University Symphony, Kregg Stovner, conducting; 4/15 with the Fort Smith Symphony, John Jeter, conducting. Awards: First Prize in the 1995 Omaha Symphony Guild Orchestral Composition Competition.