Andrea Ostertag

Growing up in Salzburg, Andrea Ostertag studied Elemental Music and Movement Education with a focus on dance at the Orff Institute of the Mozarteum University Salzburg. After graduating in 1988, she taught early childhood music and dance education at the Salzburg Music School and dance at the Carl Orff Elementary School in Traunwalchen. Until 2001, she also taught international folk dance at the Paris Lodron University Salzburg. In 2012, she completed a Master of Arts degree in music and dance studies at the same university.

Since 1991, Andrea Ostertag has taught bachelor’s and master’s students at the Orff Institute in the fields of dance and pedagogy. From 2018 to 2022, she additionally taught in the Mozarteum University’s Pre-College programme in the area of Movement to Music. For many years, she has also been closely involved in the organisation and teaching of the International Summer Course. She currently directs the university programme “Elemental Music and Movement Education” and the postgraduate course “Advanced Studies in Music and Dance Education – Orff Schulwerk.” Since April 2022, she has served as Deputy Head of the Orff Institute.

Alongside her university teaching, she has given continuing education courses internationally since 1987 for educators, students, Orff Schulwerk associations and music and dance institutions in countries including Austria, Germany, Spain, the Czech Republic, Sweden, Switzerland, France, China, the United States, New Zealand, Australia, Poland, Iran, Brazil, Colombia, Canada, Thailand, Russia and Singapore. In cooperation with Kulturkontakt Austria, she has also realised music and dance projects in compulsory schools in Salzburg. Beyond her educational work, she is a trained Shiatsu therapist, was a member of the ClownDoctors team in Salzburg for 24 years, and performed for several years with the music cabaret group “die muhTanten.”