Eugenia Umińska was a Polish violinist, music teacher, and accompanist. She was born on 4 October 1910 in Warsaw and died on 20 November 1980 in Krakow. She began learning the violin at the age of five with G. Jabłońska and M. Michałowicz.
Umińska studied at the Warsaw Conservatory with Józef Jarzębski, then at the Prague Conservatory with Otakar Ševčík, and finally in Paris with George Enescu. In the early 1930s she played in an orchestra, later became a soloist with Polish Radio and the Philharmonic, and led a string quartet in Warsaw. From 1927 she toured widely throughout Europe and was particularly known for championing the music of Karol Szymanowski, who occasionally accompanied her.
She also performed in cities of the Soviet Union during the late 1930s and late 1940s. After the war she continued her concert career, receiving particular recognition for her violin-duo performances with Irena Dubiska. Michał Spisak wrote his Suite for Two Violins for their duo and also dedicated his Sonata for Violin and Piano to Umińska.
From 1945, Umińska was a professor at the Krakow Conservatory, serving as its rector from 1964 to 1966. Her students included K. Danczowska and W. Kwaśny; Wanda Wiłkomirska also studied with her for a time.
Among Umińska's important recordings were the first recording of Szymanowski's Myths in 1938, with pianist Zygmunt Dygat, and a 1948 recording of the composer’s First Concerto conducted by Grzegorz Fitelberg. In 2005, Poznań hosted the first National Polish Eugenia Umińska Young Violinists’ Competition.