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Oct 04, 1910 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland Died on 20 Nov 1980 (aged 70)
Polish violinist
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About Eugenia Umiska
- Eugenia Uminska (4 October 1910, Warsaw – 20 November 1980, Kraków) was a Polish violinist. Student of the Warsaw Conservatory.
- From 1915 to 1918, she was a member of the Warsaw Music Society, where she was a student of Mieczyslaw Michalowicz.
- From 1919 till 1927 she studied at the Warsaw Conservatory with Józef Jarzebski.
- She completed her development with Otakar Ševcík (1927–28) and George Enescu (1932–34).
- In the years 1932–1934 she was the concertmaster of the Orchestra of the Polish Radio in Warsaw, and following this in 1937 became the second concertmaster of the Warsaw Philharmonic.
- At the same time, she was first violin in the string quartet of the Warsaw music society and member of the Polish string quartet.
- Playing in a duo with Karol Szymanowski she influenced similar compositions.
- During the 1940s she performed as soloist with orchestras in many countries.
- During the German occupation, a regular concert career was not possible, and instead she formed a piano trio with Kazimierz Wilkomirski (cellist) and pianist Maria Wilkomirska, which appeared regularly at a cafe-house in Zacheta-Gebäude.
- She took part in close to a hundred concerts before the start of World War II.
- In occupied Poland she refused an offer to play for the Nazi Germans, went into hiding and joined the Polish resistance (Armia Krajowa) as a medic.
- She took part in the Warsaw Uprising, was captured by the Germans but managed to escape during transit.
- After the war she became a professor at the Academy of Music in Kraków, and Academy's Rector between 1964 and 1966.
- She was active in various music-related organizations, and a judge in many musical competitions in Poland and abroad.
