Filip Augustson was born in 1973 near Jönköping in Sweden. From 1989 until 1991 he attended the music high school in Jönköping and from there he moved to Stockholm where he continued his studies at the Royal College of Music, from which he graduated in 1996.. During his studies he began to work as a freelance bassist playing with many different groups including Fredrik Norén Band and Fredrik Ljungvist Quartet.

 
Since then he has become one of the busiest bass-players on the scene and gone on to perform, tour and record with notables such as Nils Landgren, Bernt Rosengren, Tim Hagans, Jerry Bergonzi, Joakim Milder, Claes Jansson, Jimmy Heath, Svante Thuresson, Rigmor Gustavsson, Marie Bergman and many others.

Filip has performed on the stages of many venues throughout the world and has also taken part in around forty recordings. He presently plays in such Swedish groups as Karl-Martin Almqvist Quartet, Ståhls Blå, Carl Orrje Trio and Mathias Landaeus House of Approximation.

Since 2003 Filip leads his own quartet, which performs his original compositions. In January 2004 the group's first CD "Ich bin Filip Augustson" was released by Moserobie Music Production.