Roswitha Steindl studied "zither" as a main subject at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz under Prof. Wilfried Scharf and "guitar" with Marianne Waidhofer. Apart from chamber music activities, she also heads a Youth Choir and teaches at several music schools.

In cooperation with her collegue Karin Hartl she published a new notebook for zither called "Basics - Zither Music and more".