Eurovision Young Musicians 1994

Eurovision Young Musicians 1994
Dates and venue
Semi-final 1	9 June 1994
Semi-final 2	10 June 1994
Final	14 June 1994
Venue	Philharmonic Concert Hall Warsaw, Poland
Organisation
Organiser	European Broadcasting Union (EBU)
Production
Host broadcaster	Telewizja Polska (TVP)
Executive producer	Malgorzata Jedynak-Pietkiewicz
Musical director	Kazimierz Kord
Participants
Number of entries	24
Number of finalists	8
Debuting countries	Croatia   Estonia   Latvia   Lithuania Macedonia   Russia   Slovenia
Returning countries	Greece
Non-returning countries	Netherlands   Yugoslavia
Participation map      Finalist countries     Countries eliminated in the semi-finals     Countries that participated in the past but not in 1994
Vote
Voting system	Top 3 chosen by professional jury
Winning musician	United Kingdom Natalie Clein
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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. ^[1] 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. ^[1]

Seven countries made their début, while Greece returned, the Netherlands withdrew, and Yugoslavia being banned from entering the 1994 contest. ^[1] 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. ^[2] Natalie Clein of the United Kingdom won the contest, with Latvia and Sweden placing second and third respectively. ^[3]

Location

Further informationon the host venue: National Philharmonic in Warsaw

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. ^[1] 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. ^{[4] [5]} 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. ^[6]

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. ^[2]

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

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

Jury members

The jury members consisted of the following: ^[1]

•  Poland – Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki (president)
•  Belgium – Marc Grauwels
•   Switzerland – Arié Dzierlatka  [ de ]
•  United Kingdom – Emma Johnson
•  Czech Republic – Frantisek Maxian
•  Finland – Jorma Panula
•  Austria – Carole Dawn Reinhart
•  Italy – Alfredo Riccardi
•  Poland – 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)
Austria	ORF
Belgium	RTBF	Sports 21		[7]
Croatia	HRT
Cyprus	CyBC
Denmark	DR	DR TV [a]	Niels Oxenvad	[8]
Estonia	STV	STV1		[9]
	ETV [b]			[10]
Finland	YLE
France	France Télévision	France 3 [c]
Germany	ZDF [d]			[11] [7]
Greece	ERT
Hungary	MTV
Ireland	RTÉ	Network 2		[12]
Latvia	LTV	LTV1 [e]		[13]
Lithuania	LRT	LTV		[14]
Macedonia	MRT
Norway	NRK
Portugal	RTP
Poland	TVP	TVP2		[15]
Russia	RTR
Slovenia	RTVSLO	SLO 2		[16]
Spain	TVE
Sweden	SVT
Switzerland	SRG SSR	SF DRS		[17]
		TSR Chaîne nationale	Jean-Pierre Pastori  [ fr ]
		S Plus  [ fr ]
		TSI Canale nazionale
United Kingdom	BBC	BBC2 [f]	Humphrey Burton	[18]

Official album

7th Eurovision Competition For Young Musicians
Compilation album by Eurovision Young Musicians
Released	1994
Recorded	9–14 June 1994
Venue	Philharmonic Concert Hall, Warsaw
Genre	Classical
Length	2:34:52

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

Notes and references

Footnotes

1. Delayed broadcast on 14 June at 22:25 CET (21:25 UTC) ^[8]
2. The contest was summarised in a half-hour review programme on 5 July at 22:25, with the full recording broadcast in two parts on 7 July at 19:35 and 10 July at 17:15 respectively.
3. Delayed broadcast in a shortened format; one finalist each week featured as part of the programme Musique Graffiti from 29 March (Sweden) to 24 May 1995 (Switzerland).
4. Delayed broadcast on 14 June at 22:45 CET (21:45 UTC) ^[11]
5. Delayed broadcast on 6 August at 22:30 (EEST) ^[13]
6. Delayed broadcast on 18 June at 14:05 UTC ^[18]

References

1. "Eurovision Young Musicians 1994: About the show". European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 17 June 2016. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
2. "Eurovision Young Musicians 1994 (Semi-Final)". youngmusicians.tv. European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 17 June 2016. Retrieved 18 April 2015.
3. "Eurovision Young Musicians 1994: Participants". youngmusicians.tv. European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 17 June 2016. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
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7. "Televisie en radio dinsdag" [Television and radio Tuesday]. Limburgs Dagblad (in Dutch). Heerlen, Netherlands. 14 June 1994. p. 7. Retrieved 14 April 2024– via Delpher.
8. "Alle tiders programoversigter – Tirsdag den 14. juni 1994" [All-time programme overviews – Saturday 14th June 1994]. DR . Retrieved 14 April 2024.
9. "Televisioon" [Television]. Post (in Estonian). 14 June 1994. p. 4. Retrieved 14 April 2024– via DIGAR Eesti artiklid.
10. "Televisioon : TV 4 juuli 1994 — DIGAR Eesti artiklid". dea.digar.ee. Retrieved Apr 22, 2025.
11. "TV + Radio" [TV + Radio]. Bieler Tagblatt (in German). Biel, Switzerland. 14 June 1994. p. 23. Retrieved 14 April 2024– via e-newspaperarchives.ch.
12. "TV stings". Evening Herald . Dublin, Ireland. 14 June 1994. pp. 28, 37. Retrieved 20 March 2025– via Newspapers.com.
13. "Latvijas televīzijas programma no 31.jūlija līdz 6.augustam – Sestdiena, 6.augusts" [Latvian television program from July 31 to August 6 – Saturday, August 6]. Diena (in Latvian). 30 July 1994. p. 6. Retrieved 14 April 2024– via National Library of Latvia.
14. "TV – wtorek, 14 czerwca" [TV – Tuesday, 14 June](PDF). Kurier Wileński (in Polish). 14 June 1994. p. 8. Retrieved 14 April 2024– via Polonijna Biblioteka Cyfrowa.
15. "Program TV – Wtorek 9 maja" [TV Program – Tuesday 9 May]. Pogranicze (in Polish). 14 May 1994. p. 8. Retrieved 28 August 2024– via Podkrapacka Digital Library  [ pl ].
16. "Televizija" [Television]. Delo (in Slovenian). Ljubljana, Slovenia. 14 June 1994. p. 14. Retrieved 14 April 2024– via Digital Library of Slovenia.
17. "Mardi - 14 juin". Radio TV8 (in French). Lausanne: Héliographia SA. 14 June 1994. p. 30. Retrieved 14 April 2024– via Scriptorium.
18. "The Seventh Eurovision Competition for Young Musicians". BBC. 18 June 1994. p. 59. Retrieved 15 March 2018– via BBC Genome.

External links

• Official website