Mike Mueller - Trombone, Brass, Coaching

Music has been part of Mike’s life since his mother, who was a string teacher in Rochester, NY, sent him to Eastman School of Music for his music lessons Saturday mornings in elementary school. He began with piano lessons, and theory classes. By grade school he started playing the trombone, and by high school was in the marching band, concert band, and pit orchestra playing trombone and baritone. For some reason, Mike seemed to like the cold climate, for he went to college in the cold of northern Wisconsin and New York where he taught variety of music lessons, and pursued his music education degree.

Mike received his degree in Music Education from the State University of New York at Potsdam in 1975. After graduate work in trombone performance at Indiana University, he taught music in Mexico, NY for five years, where his concert, jazz and marching bands students not only learned how to play musical instruments, but also attempted to learn how to march in “semi-straight” lines.

Mike has played in numerous ensembles, including orchestras, concert and wind ensembles, jazz bands, brass quintets, trombone choirs, and currently plays trombone and tuba in the HRBC orchestra, as well as solo gigs as opportunities arise at church and with other organizations around Richmond.

Since those cold days and nights in Mexico, NY, Mike has been in sales and management in a variety of fields, moving to Richmond in 1995 to open a home healthcare company, which he sold in 1998. Mike currently sells software for Barefoot Technologies, married his high school sweetheart, Linda, lives in Midlothian, and are members of Huguenot Road Baptist Church.