Sarah Haslinger

PhD

Senior Scientist⋅Musicology Department⋅Institute for Equality & Gender Studies⋅Opera Studies Department⋅Quality management & development planning

Sarah Haslinger is a passionate singer, fan of the Salzburg State Theatre and Festival with insider knowledge, senior scientist at the Department of Musicology, and employee in the Department of Quality Management and Development Planning. She enjoys tracing exciting personalities from Salzburg's cultural life in walks, guided tours and publications, and is interested in the history, reception and canonisation of opera and music theatre. She also has a penchant for Salzburg's institutional history and an interest in addressing 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.