Eugenia Umińska, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Eugenia Umińska

Polish violinist

Date of Birth: 04-Oct-1910

Place of Birth: Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 20-Nov-1980

Profession: concertmaster, violinist, music pedagogue

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Eugenia Umińska

  • 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.

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