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Stina Ulrika Hellberg Agback is a Swedish harpist and composer working in jazz, free improvisation and contemporary classical music.[1][2]
Early life and education
[edit]Hellberg Agback grew up in Uppsala, where she attended a music class at school. In an interview with the Swedish music magazine Lira, she said her interest in jazz harp was sparked at age fourteen when she came across Alice Coltrane's album A Monastic Trio in a local record shop.[2]
She trained in both classical harp and jazz at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and also studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston.[2] According to her official website, she has also studied at Trinity College of Music in London.[3]
Career
[edit]Hellberg Agback has been active on the Swedish and Nordic jazz scene for around two decades, working across modern jazz, free improvisation, pop and rock.[4]
A long-standing collaboration is her work with guitarist Jonas Isaksson. The duo's debut album was released in 2017 on DO Music Records, with Mats Öberg guesting on harmonica; Lira described it as meditative music on the border between folk and jazz.[5] The collaboration later expanded into the Stina Hellberg Agback/Jonas Isaksson Quartet, which released Quiet Now (2020), featuring music by John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter and Bill Evans among others, and Great Plains (2021), an album of original music.[6]
Her other groups include the trio Trilobit, formed in 2010 with guitarist Simon Svärd and drummer Karl Jansson, as well as SHA3K, Namna and Hexabit.[1] Hexabit is a double trio of harp, pedal steel guitar, saxophone, bass and two drum kits; its album Unrulers was released in 2022.[6] SHA3K's debut album, Winning Isn't Everything, It's the Only Thing (2020), takes American football and the drive to win as its theme.[7]
In February 2025 she released the trio album The Standard is The Standard on Prophone Records, with Filip Augustson on double bass and Jon Fält on drums. The album consists mainly of jazz standards alongside several of her own compositions.[2][8] The same year saw the release of Sou Makuri by her quintet Shinken Shobu, featuring violinist Eva Lindal and woodwind player Alberto Pinton.[2][9]
Beyond her own projects, she has performed with ensembles including Mattias Risberg's Mining, Mariam the Believer and 3 Glas, and has played with the Uppsala Chamber Orchestra and the Stockholm Wind Orchestra.[3]
Selected discography
[edit]- 2017 – Jonas Isaksson & Stina Hellberg Agback (DO Music Records)
- 2020 – Trilobit (with Trilobit)
- 2020 – Quiet Now (Stina Hellberg Agback/Jonas Isaksson Quartet)
- 2020 – Winning Isn't Everything, It's the Only Thing (with SHA3K)
- 2021 – Great Plains (Stina Hellberg Agback/Jonas Isaksson Quartet)
- 2022 – Unrulers (with Hexabit)
- 2025 – The Standard is The Standard (Prophone)
- 2025 – Sou Makuri (with Shinken Shobu)
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Stina Hellberg Agback". Discogs. Retrieved 2026-09-30.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Brynnel, Sunniva (2025-03-17). "Stina Hellberg Agback hittar jazzen i harpan". Lira (in Swedish). Retrieved 2026-09-30.
- 1 2 "Bio". Stina Hellberg Agback. Retrieved 2026-09-30.
- ↑ "Stina Hellberg Agback – The Musician's Playlist". Jazz Views. Retrieved 2026-09-30.
- ↑ Lagercrantz, Andreas (2017-06-19). "Jonas Isaksson & Stina Hellberg Agback". Lira (in Swedish). Retrieved 2026-09-30.
- 1 2 "Stina Hellberg Agback". Musikcentrum Öst (in Swedish). Retrieved 2026-09-30.
- ↑ "Stina Hellberg Agback – SHA3K". Jazzfuel. Retrieved 2026-09-30.
- ↑ Young, Alison (2025). "Also of Note: The Standard is the Standard". Harp Column. Retrieved 2026-09-30.
- ↑ "Stina Hellberg Agback". Bandcamp. Retrieved 2026-09-30.
External links
[edit]- Official website
- Stina Hellberg Agback discography at Discogs
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