Eurovision Young Musicians 1994

The Eurovision Young Musicians 1994 was the seventh edition of the Eurovision Young Musicians, held at the Philharmonic Concert Hall in Warsaw, Poland, between 9 and 14 June 1994. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Telewizja Polska (TVP), musicians from eight countries participated in the televised final. A total of twenty-four countries took part in the competition therefore a semi-final was held in the same venue on 9 and 10 June 1994. Out of the 24 countries, 16 did not qualify to the final, including the host country Poland. All participants performed a classical piece of their choice accompanied by the Warsaw Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Kazimierz Kord.

Seven countries made their début, while Greece returned and the Netherlands as well as Yugoslavia withdrew from the 1994 contest. It is, to date, the contest with the most contestants and the one closest to matching the number of participants in that same year's Eurovision Song Contest, with 24 to the Song Contest's 25. It also had the most overlap of any year, as all but five countries also competed in that year's Song Contest (the exceptions being Belgium, Denmark, and Slovenia, who had been relegated from the 1994 contest, and Latvia and Macedonia, who would not debut there for several years; Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iceland, Malta, the Netherlands, Romania, and Slovakia didn't appear at the 1994 Young Musicians, but all save for Iceland would debut or return in the coming years).

The non-qualified countries were Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Lithuania, Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Slovenia and Spain. For the third time, the host country did not qualify for the final. Natalie Clein of the United Kingdom won the contest, with Latvia and Sweden placing second and third respectively.

Location

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Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall. Venue of the Eurovision Young Musicians 1994.

Philharmonic Concert Hall in Warsaw, Poland, was the host venue for the 1994 edition of the Eurovision Young Musicians. The building was built between 1900 and 1901, under the direction of Karol Kozłowski, to be reconstructed in 1955 by Eugeniusz Szparkowski. The director of the institution is Wojciech Nowak. It is the main venue of the Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra.

Since 1955, the institution organises the International Chopin Piano Competition. The building hosts the annual festival Warsaw Autumn.

Results

Semi final

Broadcasters from twenty-four countries took part in the semi-final of the 1994 contest, of which eight qualified to the televised grand final. The following participants failed to qualify.

Country	Broadcaster	Performer	Instrument	Piece	Composer
Template:Esc	RTR	Anna Ajrapetiants	Piano	Ala Albeniz	Rodion Shchedrin
Template:Esc		Nicolas Delclaud	Violin	Monologue Capriccio de la Vie d'artista	B. Petrov
Template:Esc	HRT	Ana Vidović	Guitar	Serenata española	Template:Ill
Template:Esc	TVP	Lukasz Szyrner	Cello	Danse du diable vert	Gaspar Cassadó
Template:Esc	ORF	Bernard Hufnagl	Trombone	Sonatine for trombone and piano, Allegro vivance	Kazimierz Serocki
Template:Flagicon Cyprus	CyBC	Manolis Neophytou	Piano	Prelude and Fugue No.5 in D, Op. 87	Dmitri Shostakovich
Template:Esc	LRT	Vilhelmas Čepinskis	Violin	Concerto No.2, part I	Balsis
Template:Esc	RTVSLO	Mate Bekavac	Clarinet	Solo de concours, Op. 10	H. Rabasud
Template:Flagicon Macedonia	MRT	Kalina Mrmevska	Piano	Piano Sonata No. 3, Op.28	Sergei Prokofiev
Template:Esc	RTÉ	Finghin Collins	Piano	Prelude No. 25 in C-sharp minor, Op.45	Frédéric Chopin
Template:Esc	ERT	Antonios Sousamoglou	Violin	Monogramma for violin solo	Christos Samaras
Template:Esc	TVE	Dolores Rodríguez Paredes	Guitar	Étude No. 11	Heitor Villa-Lobos
Template:Esc	NRK	Rolf-Erik Nystrøm	Saxophone	Suite pour saxophone alto et piano, part I	Paul Bonneau
Template:Esc	ZDF	Luise Wiedemann	Bassoon	Sonate in F-major, Op.168, part II	Camille Saint-Saens
Template:Esc	RTP	Ruben Da Luz Santos	Trombone	Bach	Kurt Sturzenegger
Template:Esc	RTBF	David Cohen	Cello	Cantillene-jeu	P.B. Michel

Final

Awards were given to the top three participants. The table below highlights these using gold, silver, and bronze. The placing results of the remaining participants is unknown and never made public by the European Broadcasting Union.

R/O	Country	Broadcaster	Performer	Instrument	Piece	Composer	Result
1	Template:Esc	MTV	Mark Farago	Piano	Dance Macabre	Ferenc Liszt
2	Template:Esc	LTV	Liene Circene	Piano	Dance Macabre	Ferenc Liszt	2
3	Template:Esc	SRG SSR	David Bruchez	Trombone	Ballade for Trombone and Orchestra	Frank Martin
4	Template:Esc	YLE	Pia Toivio	Cello	Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33, part II, VI, VII	Pyotr Tchaikovsky
5	Template:Esc	ERR	Marko Martin	Piano	Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 35, part III, IV	Dmitri Shostakovich
6	Template:Esc	SVT	Malin Broman	Violin	Violin Concerto in A minor, Op.53, part III	Antonin Dvorak	3
7	Template:Esc	BBC	Natalie Clein	Cello	Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85, part I	Edward Elgar	1
8	Template:Esc	DR	Frederik Magle	Organ	Organ Concerto in G minor, part II	Francis Poulenc

Jury members

The jury members consisted of the following:

• Template:Flagu – Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki (president)
• Template:Flagu – Marc Grauwels
• Template:Flagu – Template:Ill
• Template:Flagu – Emma Johnson
• Template:Flagu – Frantisek Maxian
• Template:Flagu – Jorma Panula
• Template:Flagu – Carole Dawn Reinhart
• Template:Flagu – Alfredo Riccardi
• Template:Flagu – Wanda Wilkomirska

Broadcasts

EBU members from the following countries broadcast the final round. Known details on the broadcasts in each country, including the specific broadcasting stations and commentators are shown in the tables below.

Broadcasters in participating countries

Country	Broadcaster	Channel(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref(s)
Template:Flagu	ORF
Template:Flagu	RTBF	Sports 21
Template:Flagu	HRT
Template:Flagu	CyBC
Template:Flagu	DR	DR TVTemplate:Efn	Niels Oxenvad
Template:Flagu	STV	STV1
	ETVTemplate:Efn
Template:Flagu	YLE
Template:Flagu		France 3Template:Efn
Template:Flagu	ZDFTemplate:Efn
Template:Flagu	ERT
Template:Flagu	MTV
Template:Flagu	RTÉ	Network 2
Template:Flagu	LTV	LTV1Template:Efn
Template:Flagu	LRT	LTV
Template:Flagu	MRT
Template:Flagu	NRK
Template:Flagu	RTP
Template:Flagu	TVP	TVP2
Template:Flagu	RTR
Template:Flagu	RTVSLO	SLO 2
Template:Flagu	TVE
Template:Flagu	SVT
Template:Flagu	SRG SSR	SF DRS
			Template:Ill
Template:Flagu	BBC	BBC2Template:Efn	Humphrey Burton

Official album

7th Eurovision Competition For Young Musicians was the official compilation album of the 1994 Contest, put together by the European Broadcasting Union and released by the host broadcaster TVP shortly after the contest in June 1994. The album featured live recordings of all 24 participants including those who took part in the semi-final round, divided into 2 separate CDs.

See also

• Eurovision Song Contest 1994