Mar 28 2020
Be sure to take advantage of this new opportunity to learn from Karen online! She is offering lessons on autoharp, mountain dulcimer, guitar, ukulele, and mandolin. Besides being an expert instructor with over 30 years' private lesson and national workshop…
Nov 30 2019
CD Review: Karen Mueller, Accent on Dulcimer: A Retrospective
by Steve Eulberg for DPN Fall 2019.
Karen Mueller’s Accent on Dulcimer is a 15-track retrospective from a storied performing, recording and teaching career. I own and listen to all of…
Oct 13 2019
Karen's longtime dulcimer student Grant Olson has won first place in the National Mountain Dulcimer Championship in Winfield, Kansas. The talented 17 year old has been studying with Karen for six years. He played arrangements of classical, ragtime, and old-time…
Mar 30 2018
The West Bank School of Music was a staple of the Twin Cities music scene since the 1970s, and sadly closed its doors at the end of March, 2018. Karen had been on the faculty there since 1989, when she…
Feb 14 2014
Following Karen's January teaching week at the Folk School, she talked with host Leah Dolgoy about her musical past and teaching philosophies. See the full interview here:
Oct 3 2013
Review of “Solo Autoharp”
Autoharp Quarterly, Winter 2013
By Stew Schneider
In the unlikely event there is anyone
connected with the autoharp who has not
heard of Ms. Mueller, this much be said:
she is either the most talented…
Mar 16 2013
Minnesota Public Radio has run a nice story + audio interview with Karen that you can find here:
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2013/03/15/arts/dulcimer-virtuoso-karen-mueller
May 16 2012
MacPhail Center for Music recently awarded four $25,000 McKnight Artists Fellowships to Minnesota’s finest performing musicians. For the 16th year, MacPhail administered the competition, a component of the McKnight Foundation Artist Fellowships program, which is intended to provide recognition and…