Born in Upper Austria, Michaela Selinger completed her piano and oboe studies at the Linz Musikgymnasium, followed by voice studies at the Vienna University of Music with Walter Berry and Robert Holl. Further studies were undertaken at the Basel Musikakademie, where she acquired her Soloist Diploma in the class of Kurt Widmer as well as attended masterclasses with Michèle Moser and Antonio Carangelo. Further coaching with both, Michèle Moser and Antonio Carangelo, continues to take place on a regular basis.

Internationally acclaimed on the concert stage, Michaela Selinger has received excellent reviews in praise of her smartsome and cultivated delivery. She has performed at the Linz Brucknerfest, at the Sascha Paley Festival in France, at the International Chamber Music Festival Davos as well as at the Mürzzuschlag Brahmsfest and could be heard in recital with Gérard Wyss at the Salle Paderewski in Lausanne and with Ravel's Histories Naturelles and Debussy's Chansons de Bilitis at the Winterthur Musikfestwochen. She also sang Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire at the Davos Festival and a Hugo Wolf recital at the Wolf.Aden 2003 in Linz.

Further highlights in her young career were her début at the Grand Théâtre de Genève in the role of Flower Maiden in Parsifal, at the Brucknerfest she could be heard as Flosshilde in Das Rheingold and at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt as Dorabella in Così fan tutte and Paulina in Pique Dame. At the Innsbruck Landestheater she performed the role of Cherubino in La Nozze di Figaro and had a great success in the title role of Massenet's Cherubin.

The artist has also devoted herself to Lied and has already worked several times with Roger Vignoles to high critical acclaim. On the concert stage she appeared during the past seasons with Riccardo Muti in a Mozart programme, with Martin Haselböck in Il Re Pastore and with Vladimir Fedosejev in de Fallas' El Sombrero de Tres Picos, all at the Vienna Musikverein.

Michaela Selinger was awarded the Orpheus prize 2001 and was laureate of the Lions Club Linz and of the International Bach competition Leipzig 2002. In 2003 Michaela Selinger was laureate at the Hans Gabor Belvedere Wettbewerb in Vienna and in 2005 she was awarded with the "Förderpreis der Eberhard-Waechter-Medaille".