Lina Nyberg has been teaching jazz singing, ensemble, improvisation and composition as a part of her occupation since 1993. She is the Associate Professor in Jazz Voice at the Grieg Academy, University of Bergen, Norway since 2023. She also teaches voice, composition and creative projects at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm since 25 years.
She is a dedicated and popular lecturer in the subjects creativity, composing and equality in music, through her vast experience of working with all those subjects IRL.
She has a Master in Composition (2020) and a Diploma of fine Arts (1993) as a jazz singer and has a certificate from the qualifying course for university teachers (2021). She has written an essay on “With the body as the instrument” (only in Swedish) Download HERE –
and her Master essay was on “The inner room – to use associative synesthesia as a starting point for creative work” Download HERE
She also studied “Voice Function in Popular Music Styles” at SMI (2021) A course of song pedagogy, logonomy or logo-pedics, with a theoretic knowledge framework for experiences and observations on the voices within the repertoire of popular music.
If you are interested in booking clinics/workshops/lessons with Lina send an email to coach@linanyberg.se
“Lina was a wonderful vocal teacher. Especially because she challenged me in what I thought was impossible and supported me daring to go my own way. Remember the song lessons as much fun, we sang everything from jazz standards, soul, brazilian to more modern stuff. Lina was always present and seemed to like singing together so we did that a lot. We took every other solo song and improvised together freely with and without the piano (which Lina knows how to play).
A superb educator who has a special sense of what the student needs to develop.” – Sofia Jernberg
“Lina is an extremely attentive teacher who sees the student where she/he is at the moment and inspires to development and deepening based on the student’s specific needs and wishes.” – Emily McEwan Fornhammar
“Lina is a free thinking teacher and develops creativity, she really got me to go outside my comfort zone, for example to work with free improvisation and also concerning musical arrangements. So incredibly rewarding! She is and remains one of my greatest inspirators. ” – Hanna Elmquist
“Lina Nyberg is the most creative challenging teacher I have worked with. With concrete tools she challenged me to develop my own creativity. I highly recommended Lina as a teacher. ” – Alexander Lövmark
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2024 External assessor at the Norwegian Academy of Music
2024 External assessor at the Academy of Music and Drama in Gothenburg
2023 Guest lecturer at Malmö Music Exchange Forum
2023 Lecturer at International Jazz Voice Conference (FI)
2023- today Associate Professor Jazz Voice Grieg Academy, University of Bergen Norway.
1998-today Associate Professor voice, ensemble and composition at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm
2018 Guest lecturer at Malmö Music Exchange Forum
2017 Guest teacher at Stavanger Academy of Music (NO)
2016 Guest teacher at Stavanger Academy of Music (NO)
2016 Guest lecturer at Conservatorio de Coimbra (PT)
2015 Lecturer at International Jazz Voice Conference (FI)
2015 Guest Lecturer at Copenhagen Jazz Camp (DK)
2014 Artist in residence at Musikhögskolan at Malmö Academy of Music
2010 Agder Jazz Summer Camp (NO)
2008-2009 External assessor at Norwegian Academy of Music
1998-2008 Vocal and ensemble teacher at the Academy of Music and Drama in Gothenburg
1998-2003 Vocal teacher at Södra Latins Gymnasium/High School in Stockholm
1993-1998 Vocal teacher at Jazzgymnasiet Vasaskolan i Gävle
She has also appeared as a guest teacher repeatedly at “Folk Highschools” in music as Fridhems folkhögskola, Skurups folkhögskola, Bollnäs folkhögskola, Framnäs folkhögskola, Billströmska, Ljungskile folkhögskola among others.
Curiosities:
Founder of the organization IMPRA together with Gunilla Törnfeldt (www.impra.se)
Lina was in charge of the Equality in Music project 2011-2012 (Musikliv i Balans) on Statens Musikverk
Board assignments:
2020- 2022 Lina was a part of the board of KVAST, The Swedish Association of Women Composers (Kvinnlig Anhopning av Svenska Tonsättare)
2017-2020 she was the chairperson of the Association of Swedish Jazz Musicians FSJ- Föreningen Sveriges Jazzmusiker
SAMI (Swedish collecting society for artists and musicians)
Svenska Musikerförbundet Avd.10 (Swedish Musicians Union)
SKAP – The Swedish Society of Songwriters, Composers and Authors
Musikcentrum Sweden
Musikcentrum Öst
The Jazz Magazine Orkesterjournalen
Svensk Jazz – Arrangörsrådet