Katharina Steinhauser is a staff member at the library of the Mozarteum University, where she is primarily responsible for the area of information literacy. As a trained flautist, music teacher and historian, she is also active as a musician and scholar.
Katharina Steinhauser was born in South Tyrol and completed her master’s studies at the Mozarteum University Salzburg (flute pedagogy with Bernhard Krabatsch) and at the University of Salzburg (history with a focus on cultural and regional history). She also completed a certificate programme in Cultural Management within the interdisciplinary cooperation focus Wissenschaft & Kunst and undertook further training at the Institute for Cultural Concepts in Vienna.
She began teaching during her studies, initially in private settings and later for several years at the Upper Austrian State Music School system, as well as giving workshops and seminars.
She subsequently worked as a research assistant at the Departments of Musicology and Music Education and at the Salzburg Music History Department at the Mozarteum University. During this period, she published articles in edited volumes, presented at symposia, and co-edited academic publications of the university. She continues to contribute occasional scholarly articles on topics in cultural and music history.
Since 2019, she has been a staff member at the Mozarteum University Library, where her main responsibilities include information literacy, research training, and collection development in the field of music education.
In addition to her library work, she is active as a flautist in solo and chamber music settings, performs with the Stadtmusik Salzburg as flautist and piccolo player, plays alpine folk music in various ensembles, and works as a museum educator at the Mozart Museums of the Mozarteum Foundation.