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Sarah Haslinger
PhD
Sarah Haslinger is a passionate singer, an informed enthusiast of the Salzburg State Theatre and the Salzburg Festival, Senior Scientist at the Department of Musicology, and a team member of the Department of Quality Management and Development Planning. She enjoys tracing the paths of noteworthy personalities from Salzburg’s cultural life through walks, guided tours and publications, and is particularly interested in the history of opera, including its reception and the development of the operatic canon. Further research interests include Salzburg’s institutional history, as well as current topics such as sustainability and climate change in a musical context.
Born in Upper Austria in 1990, Sarah Haslinger took piano lessons from an early age, soon followed by oboe and – as a brief interlude – flute. After studying music education with a focus on singing at the Mozarteum University and German language and literature at the University of Salzburg, she completed her doctorate at the Mozarteum in 2025 with a thesis on Bernhard Paumgartner and the Salzburg Festival.
She has been a Senior Scientist at the Musicology Department since 2016 and is also involved in the Research Focus “Salzburg’s Musical History”, collaborating on numerous projects in this field, including a book on the history of the Mozarteum. She also coordinates regular guided tours of with a musical focus.
In addition to her teaching and research activities, she completed training in university didactics at the University of Salzburg in 2020 and was awarded the certificate for university lecturers in “Education for Sustainable Development” by the Alliance of Sustainable Universities in Austria in 2023. She is also a union representative for the university’s artistic and academic staff, and a member of the Equal Opportunities Task Force and the Working Group for Sustainability.
Since October 2024, Sarah Haslinger has also been working in the Department of Quality Management and Development Planning.