Eugenia Umińska

Eugenia Uminska ( born October 4, 1910 in Warsaw, † November 20, 1980 in Kraków ) was a Polish violinist and music teacher.

Uminska attended from 1915 to 1918 the School of the Warsaw Music Society, where she was a student of Mieczyslaw Michałowicz. From 1919 to 1927 she studied at the Warsaw Conservatory violin with Józef Jarzębski. She completed her training at Otokar Sevcik ( 1927-28 ) and George Enescu ( 1932-34 ).

From 1932 to 1934, she was concertmaster of the Orchestra of the Polish Radio, thereafter until 1937 Second concertmaster of the Orchestra of the Warsaw Philharmonic. In addition, they played the first violin in a string quartet of the Warsaw Music Society and was a member of the Polish quartet. In duo with Karol Szymanowski they repeatedly led to his compositions. As a soloist, she performed in the 1940s, among other things, in England, France, Germany, Holland, Sweden, Norway, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Bulgaria and the USSR.

When, after the German occupation in 1939, a regulated concert business was impossible Uminska, cellist and pianist Kazimierz Wilkomirski Maria Wiłkomirska founded a piano trio that could occur in a coffee house in Zachęta building. When, after a concert featuring works exclusively by Polish composers ( Władysław Żeleński, Karol Szymanowski and Ludomir Rozycki ) the Zachęta was closed, the trio a new workplace was held in a register held by the pianist and composer Bolesław Woytowicz cafe. Here Uminska occurred since 1941 with a string quartet ( with Kazimierz Wilkomirski novel Padlewski and Henryk Trzonek ) and has performed world premieres of compositions Padlewskis novel, novel Palesters, Zbigniew Turskis, Stanisław Wiechowicz ', Bacewicz ', Kazimierz Wilkomirski and Witold Rudzinskis.

After their refusal to participate in a conference organized by the German occupation concert at Warsaw's city theater, Uminska only occurred in secret underground concerts, where donations for artists in the underground as Władysław Szpilman was collected. She worked among others here Witold Lutosławski with Andrzej Panufnik and as a piano duo together and made ​​numerous recordings for a broadcasting studio on the ground.

1944 could be trained as a medic Uminska of the Polish Home Army. During the Warsaw Uprising she was arrested and deported to forced labor in Germany. However, the way she managed to escape, and they appeared to the end of the war with friends near Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski below.

In June 1945 Uminska first appeared after the war in Cracow with the Violin Concerto in D Major by Johannes Brahms with the Orchestra of the Cracow Philharmonic under the direction of Andrzej Panufnik on. In 1946 she founded a string quartet, which was fifteen years later, she realized with various musicians Cracow radio recordings in trios, they also worked as a violin duo with Irena Dubiska. Their first concert after the war in Germany, she gave in Berlin in 1949, where she played Szymanowski's First Violin Concerto under the direction of Grzegorz Fitelberg.

From 1945 to 1980 Uminska taught at the State School of Music in Krakow. You got here in 1962 and was a professor from 1964 to 1966 Rector. Since 1957, she headed the Department of String Instruments. also she also taught at the State School of Music and at the Music High School in the city. Her student here included Kaja Danczowska and Wieslaw Kwaśny, during the occupation in Warsaw she had also taught Wanda Wiłkomirska.

Regularly worked Uminska as a juror at international violin competitions. She was co-founder and from 1959 to 1965 director of the Company of Polish music artists ( SPAM) and honorary member of the Wieniawski Musikgesellschat in Poznan and the Foundation Eugène Ysaye in Brussels. From the Polish state, she was awarded the Order of Labor ( 1949), honored the National Music Award (1952 and 1955) and the Ministry of Culture Awards (1964 and 1974).

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  • University of Music and Theatre in Hamburg - Music and Gender on the Internet - Eugenia Uminska
  • Polskie Centrum informacji Muzycznej - Eugenia Uminska
  • Classical violinist
  • Music teacher
  • Pole
  • Born 1910
  • Died in 1980
  • Woman
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