Sarah Haslinger

Senior Scientist for Salzburg Music History / Employee in the Department for Quality Management & Development Planning⋅Department Musicology⋅Institute for Equality & Gender Studies⋅Quality management & development planning

Sarah Haslinger is a passionate singer, a Salzburg regional theatre and festival fan with insider knowledge and a senior scientist for Salzburg's music history. She enjoys tracing the latter and exciting personalities of Salzburg's cultural life in walks, guided tours and publications. She also has a soft spot for Salzburg's institutional history and is interested in exploring current topics such as sustainability and climate change in musicological discourse.

Born in Upper Austria in 1990, Sarah Haslinger began playing the piano at an early age, which was soon followed by oboe and - as a brief intermezzo - flute lessons. She completed her studies in music education with a focus on singing at the Mozarteum University and German studies at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg in 2015 with honours and a thesis on the reception of Paracelsus in music.

Since October 2016, she has been a Senior Scientist for Salzburg Music History at the Department of Musicology and at the same time a member of the ‘Salzburg Music History Research Centre’, where she is involved in several publications on this topic - such as a book project on the history of the Mozarteum - and coordinates regular guided tours on music-related topics in Salzburg.
In addition to her research and teaching activities, she completed the course for university didactics at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg in 2020 and obtained the certificate for university lecturers in ‘Education for Sustainable Development’ from the Alliance of Sustainable Universities in Austria in 2022 to 2023. She is also involved in the works council for artistic and scientific staff, the working group for equal treatment issues and the working group for sustainability.

At the Mozarteum University Salzburg, Sarah Haslinger has also been working in the Department of Quality Management and Development Planning since October 2024.