Angela Heck Mueller enjoys an active career as an educator, solo flutist, orchestral and chamber musician, and collaborative artist in Columbus, Ohio. As the manager of the Community Music School (CMS) in the School of Music at The Ohio State University, Dr. Heck Mueller designs and implements all music curricula and educational programs, plans and organizes the school’s recitals, and manages all CMS instructors. Heck Mueller also oversees all Outreach and Engagement for the School of Music. She manages the School’s Youth Summer Music Programs (YSMP); plans the Opus 88 outreach initiative through the State of Ohio; and developed and manages Fostering Empathy and Resilience through Music and the Therapeutic Arts (FERMATA), a new partnership program to develop opportunities for music students, faculty and staff to actively perform at The James via the Heather Pick Music Performance Program as well as at other medical facilities on campus and in the region.

As adjunct instructor of flute at Muskingum University, she taught applied flute lessons and studio classes to flute majors. She also directed flute choir and various chamber ensembles. From 2010 through 2023, she served as music instructor at Ohio Dominican University (Columbus, Ohio) where she taught private lessons and courses in music history, music theory, world music, popular music, music for teachers, and music and dance. During this time, she made several initiatives to improve the music curriculum and revived the Minor in Music program. In 2012, Heck Mueller served as visiting professor of flute at Ohio University (Athens, Ohio) where she performed with OhioWinds, the faculty woodwind quintet-in-residence. In addition to private flute lessons and studio master classes, she also taught various chamber music ensembles, flute methods, and orchestral repertoire classes.

A frequent guest soloist, lecturer, and master class clinician, Heck Mueller has performed and presented at festivals throughout the United States and abroad, including Carnegie Hall, the National Flute Association’s Annual Convention, the Florida Flute Association's Annual Convention, the Flute Society of Washington’s Mid-Atlantic Flute Fair, the Central Ohio Flute Association’s Annual Flute Festival, the Kentucky Flute Festival, the Oklahoma Flute Society’s Flute Fair, the International Piccolo Symposium, the Classical Music Festival in Austria and in Hungary, and the Haydn Festspiele in Austria, as well as universities such as Ohio University, Ohio Dominican University, Ashland University, Muskingum University, Northern Kentucky University, Southern Utah University, Dixie State University, Pacific Lutheran University, Indiana University–East, Cameron University, the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, the University of Oklahoma, and the Haydn Conservatory in Austria.

As an orchestral musician, Heck Mueller serves as third flute with the Springfield Symphony Orchestra and third flute and piccolo with the Newark–Granville Symphony Orchestra and performs regularly with the Central Ohio Symphony Orchestra, Lima Symphony Orchestra, New Albany Symphony Orchestra, River Cities Symphony Orchestra, Westerville Symphony Orchestra, and Ashland Symphony Orchestra. She is former second flutist of the Classical Music Festival Orchestra in collaboration with the Haydn Festspiele in Eisenstadt, Austria and has also performed with the Oklahoma City Philharmonic and Enid Symphony Orchestra.

Dr. Heck Mueller received Bachelor of Music degrees cum laude from Ohio University in flute performance and music education, a Master of Music degree in flute performance from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in flute performance from the University of Oklahoma. Her teachers include Valerie Watts, John Bailey, Alison Brown Sincoff and Catherine Keener Abner.