Tara Mueller is the Assistant Principal Second Violin of the Alabama Symphony in Birmingham. Tara has also performed with the Sarasota Orchestra and the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, FL. She has served as the Assistant Concertmaster of the Terre Haute Symphony Orchestra while also pursuing a performance diploma at Indiana’s well known Jacobs School of Music. Tara has also performed with the Phoenix Symphony, Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, the Discovery Ensemble, Symphony of Northwest Arkansas, and Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra. Tara holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s of Music degrees in violin performance from the New England Conservatory of Music. She is a student of Luc Chapman, Bayla Keyes, Jorja Fleezanis and Kathleen Winkler.

Tara is a native of Fayetteville, Arkansas and studied with Holly Smardo as a young child. Her parents, Tess Delaplain and Bob Mueller are both music professors at the University of Arkansas Music Department.