Improviser, composer, leader of the Amalia Umeda Quartet, member of the bands Hand to Earth, Maciej Obara Bluish Landscapes, Stanisław Słowiński InfraArt Orchestra, The Dumplings Orchestra. The instruments she most frequently uses in her music are violin, viola, and voice.

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In 2021, Amalia founded the Amalia Umeda Quartet, featuring Franciszek Raczkowski (piano), Michał Szeligowski (drums), and Michał Aftyka (double bass). In April 2022, the quartet released their debut album Nowoświt, co-produced with Polish Radio Program 2. The group was selected for the Footprints Europe 2021 program, which resulted in an international tour promoting the album. The tour included performances at the Oslo Jazz Festival (Oslo, Norway), Umea Jazz Festival (Umea, Sweden), Cologne Jazzweek / NICA Exchange (Cologne, Germany), Nasjonal Jazzscene (Oslo, Norway), NOSPR (Katowice, Poland), Periscope (Lyon, France), Bimhuis (Amsterdam, Netherlands), and the Jazzahead European Showcase (Bremen, Germany). In 2024, the band performed at the Sokołowsko Jazz feat. PUNKT Festival, where they previewed material composed for their second album. They recorded the album called ORGANIKT at MONOCHROM Studio in December of the same year.

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In 2023, Amalia began collaborating with the Australian band Hand to Earth, resulting in two joint performances that year, at the Melbourne International Jazz Festival and Jazztopad at the National Forum of Music in Wrocław. In June 2024, the band toured the USA and Canada as part of the Jazztopad Festival in New York, Suoni Per Il Popolo, Ottawa Jazz Festival, and Vancouver International Jazz Festival. During this tour, Amalia also played three improvised concerts: a duo with Stephan Crump at Rizzoli Bookstore (NY), a concert with Lesley Mok, Marta Sanchez, and Michael Bates at Barbes (NY), and a performance with Eirik Hegdal, David Stackenäs, Tyson Naylor, and Kenton Loewen (Vancouver).

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Since 2024, she has been a part of the Polish-Norwegian octet led by Maciej Obara, alongside Sissel Vera Pettersen, Anna Szmatoła, Dominik Wania, Adam Jędrysik, Ingerbrigt Håker Flaten, and Audun Kleive. The group performed at the Toast Tomasz Stańko festival with the Bluish Landscapes program in Warsaw and Rzeszów. In the same year, she performed with the Polish Radio Jazz Studio at the final concert of the Summer Jazz Academy in Łódź, where the premiere of her composition Ukryte Przejście took place.

 

Last year, Amalia was nominated for the Fryderyk Award in the category of Debut Album of the Year - Jazz, and for the Grand Prix Jazz Melomani Award in the category Hope of Melomaniacs. She is a laureate of the 3rd prize, 2 special awards, and the audience award at the International Zbigniew Seifert Violin Jazz Competition (2018, 2022, 2024), a special award at the Most the Most: Współbrzmienia Competition (2023), a special award at the Young Crocus Jazz Contest (2021, with Amalia Umeda Quartet), and second place at the Blue Note Poznań Competition (2020, solo category).

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A double Master's graduate in the arts, she completed her studies at the Academy of Music in Katowice in the Department of Jazz and Stage Music, in the class of Henryk Gembalski, and at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw in the Department of Jazz and World Music, in the class of Mateusz Smoczyński.

 

She has participated in numerous workshops focused not only on musical development but also on career growth, including the International Jazz Platform in Łódź and Oslo, and Milestones organized by Jazztopad/NFM.