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Mueller, Adeline presented her paper 鈥淭ouching Melodies: Tactile Music Notation at the Vienna Institute for the Blind鈥 at the Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society in 2023. She shared tactile replicas of one of the Institute's experimental notation systems, prepared by Luke Jaeger (Technical Project Administrator, Fimbel Maker and Innovation Lab).


Mueller, A. Presented 鈥淭he Impossible Oratorio: Rejection, Refusal, and Blind Agency on the Eighteenth-century Stage鈥 at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (St. Louis MO, March 2023).


Mueller, A. Presented 鈥淧ersuasive Performance: The Rhetoric of Blind Students' Concerts in Vienna, 1808-1824鈥 at conference 鈥溾 (Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies, San Jose CA, February 2023).


Adeline Mueller (Music) gave an invited lecture in the Musicology Colloquia series at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, entitled 鈥淭ouching Melodies: Tactile Music Notation at the Vienna Institute for the Blind, ca. 1819鈥 (November 8). Luke Jaeger (Technical Project Administrator, Fimbel Maker and Innovation Lab) prepared three-dimensional replicas of an experimental music notation system illustrated in one of Mueller's nineteenth-century sources; these were shared with the audience at the lecture.


Gave two public lectures in November and December as part of the Pioneer Valley Symphony鈥檚 Fall 2020 Discovery Series, 鈥.鈥 Mueller was in conversation with the Symphony's Music Director Tianhui Ng (Music), who hosted the series.


Presented papers at the international symposium Folk Music Research, Folkloristics, and Anthropology of Music in Europe: Pathways in the Intellectual History of Ethnomusicology (Vienna, University for Music and Performing Arts) and the Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society (Boston).


Native American and Indigenous Studies Mellon Award by Five Colleges, Incorporated (FCI) and the Gathering at the Crossroads project, for a residency project with Native composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha鈥 Tate leading to the creation of a new course and the first ever full-length Chickasaw opera, Shellshaker. The project is for one year. This funding is made possible thanks to support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. 

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation


Concluded a pandemic trilogy of virtual operas with "A Survivor's Odyssey", staged in UnReal and performed live on the newly developed TuttiRemote platform on September 21, 2021 with White Snake Projects. Focused on the social issues brought to the fore by the pandemic, this latest installment worked with multiple Boston community organizations to highlight the rise of intimate partner violence.


Hosted a libretto workshop on September 22 - 25, 2021, with Lila Palmer (American Lyric Theatre) on Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate's groundbreaking opera, Shell Shaker, an opera written and performed completely in Chickasaw. 


Was invited as a guest artist with the Lviv National Philharmonic of the Ukraine for a festival of music by the newly rediscovered composer, Thomas de Hartmann on September 17, 2021. The concert represented the culmination of a four-year long consultancy editing and performing the orchestral works of this contemporary of Rachmaninoff. Stravinsky and Kandinsky.