Cornelia Osterwald

Cornelia Osterwald (born 25 March 1975) is a German harpsichordist and docent for early music.

Career Born in Altenburg, Osterwald studied piano, harpsichord and fortepiano at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig with Professor Helgeheide Schmidt and Professor Christine Schornsheim from 1993 to 2004. This was followed by postgraduate studies in early music with Professor Ludger Rémy at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden, and again with Christine Schornsheim in Leipzig.

Osterwald taught harpsichord, chamber music and correpetition at the Georg Friedrich Händel Conservatory in Halle and at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg Institute of Music from 2001 to 2012. In addition, she has been lecturer for harpsichord at the Evangelische Hochschule für Kirchenmusik Halle since 2011.