Eurovision Young Musicians

Television broadcast
Original title	Eurovision Young Musicians
Country of production	various
Year (s)	since 1982
Production company	various
Broadcasting cycle	every 2 years
genre	music
production	European Broadcasting Union
Moderation	various
First broadcast	May 11, 1982

Moderator Sabine Heinrich and German participant Judith Stapf before the 2014 competition

Eurovision Young Musicians (EYM) is a music competition in the field of classical music for European young people between the ages of 15 and 19. It is organized by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).

The competition is held every two years and is also televised. Since it was founded in 1982, the Eurovision Young Musicians competition has become one of the most important music competitions on an international level.

In contrast to the Eurovision Song Contest and Junior Eurovision Song Contest , an international jury of experts decides at the Eurovision Young Musicians .

Overview of the events

year	date	host	Attendees	winner	Runner-up	Third place
1982	May 11th	United Kingdom , Manchester	06th	BR Germany Markus Pawlik piano	France Paul Meyer clarinet	Switzerland Bertrand Roulet piano
1984	May 22	Switzerland , Geneva	07th	Netherlands Isabelle van Keulen violin	Finland Olli Mustonen piano	United Kingdom Emma Johnson clarinet
1986	May 27th	Denmark , Copenhagen	15th	France Sandrine Lazardes piano	Switzerland Marian Rosenfeld piano	Finland Jan-Erik Gustafsson cello
1988	31. May	Netherlands , Amsterdam	16	Austria Julian Rachlin violin	Norway Leif Ove Andsnes piano	Italy Domenico Nordio violin
1990	May 29th	Austria , Vienna	18th	Netherlands Niek van Oostrum piano	BR Germany Koh Gabriel Kameda violin	Belgium Christophe Delporte accordion
1992	June 9th	Belgium , Brussels	13	Poland Bartlomiej Niziol violin	Spain Antonio Serrano Harmonica	Belgium Marie Hallynck cello
1994	14th June	Poland , Warsaw	24	United Kingdom Natalie Clein cello	Latvia Liene Circene piano	Sweden Malin Broman violin
1996	June 12	Portugal , Lisbon	17th	Germany Julia Fischer violin	Austria Lidia Baich violin	Estonia Hanna Heinmaa piano
1998	June 4th	Austria , Vienna	13	Austria Lidia Baich violin	Croatia Monika Leskovar cello	United Kingdom Adrian Spillett drums
2000	15th June	Norway , Bergen	18th	Poland Stanislaw Drzewiecki piano	Finland Timo-Veikko Valve Cello	Russia Nikolai Tokarev piano
2002	June 19th	Germany , Berlin	20th	Austria Dalibor Karvay violin	United Kingdom Sarah Williamson clarinet	Slovenia Karmen Pecar cello
2004	May 27th	Switzerland , Lucerne	17th	Austria Alexandra Soumm violin	Germany Koryun Asatryan saxophone	Russia Dinara Nadzhafova piano
2006	12th of May	Austria , Vienna	18th	Sweden Andreas Brantelid cello	Norway Tine Thing Helseth Trumpet	Russia Dmitry Mayboroda piano
2008	May 9	Austria , Vienna	16	Greece Dionysios Grammenos clarinet	Finland Roope Grondahl piano	Norway Eldbjørg Hemsing violin
2010	May 14th	Austria , Vienna	15th	Slovenia Eva-Nina Kozmus flute	Norway Guro Kleven Hagen violin	Russia Daniil Trifonov piano
2012	May 11th	Austria , Vienna	14th	Norway Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad viola	Austria Emmanuel Tjeknavorian violin	Armenia Narek Kazazyan Kanun
2014	31. May	Germany , Cologne	14th	Austria Ziyu He violin	Slovenia Urban Stanič piano	Hungary Gergely Devich cello
2016	September 3	Germany , Cologne	11	Poland Łukasz Dyczko saxophone	Czech Republic Robert Bílý piano	Austria Dominik Wagner double bass
2018	August 23	United Kingdom , Edinburgh	18th	Russia Ivan Bessonov piano	Slovenia Nikola Pajanović violin	-
2020	June 21st	Croatia , Zagreb	11

Medal table

Competition winner

The following is the medal table showing the most successful countries in the competition up to 2018. With five wins, two second places and one third place, Austria is the most successful participant in the competition.

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1.	Austria	5	2	1	8th
2.	Poland	3	0	0	3
3.	Germany	2	1	0	3
4th	Netherlands	2	0	0	2
5.	Norway	1	3	1	6th
6th	Slovenia	1	2	1	4th
7th	United Kingdom	1	1	2	4th
8th.	France	1	1	0	2
9.	Russia	1	0	4th	5
10.	Sweden	1	0	1	2
11.	Greece	1	0	0	1
12.	Finland	0	3	1	4th
13.	Switzerland	0	1	1	2
14th	Spain	0	1	0	1
14th	Czech Republic	0	1	0	1
14th	Latvia	0	1	0	1
14th	Croatia	0	1	0	1
18th	Italy	0	0	1	1
18th	Belgium	0	0	1	1
18th	Estonia	0	0	1	1
18th	Armenia	0	0	1	1
18th	Hungary	0	0	1	1

Attendees

at least one participation

EBU members without participation

not yet started as a separate country

In order to be able to participate in the EYM, the respective participating broadcaster must belong to the EBU . Since 1982 and as of 2018, a total of 43 countries have participated in the EYM. Most of the participations are in Norway and Austria with 18 participants each. Until 2016 Austria had participated in every edition of the competition, but withdrew from the competition in 2018 for unknown reasons.

All 43 participants are shown in the following overview. The unmarked countries are active participants. The marked participants, however, are inactive participants.

country	debut	cancellation	return	Participation	Victories	broadcast
Albania	2018			1	0	RTSH
Armenia	2012	2014		1	0	ARMTV
Belgium	1986	1988, 2002, 2008, 2018	2000, 2006	10	0	RTBF
Bosnia and Herzegovina	2012	2014		1	0	BHRT
Bulgaria	2006	2008		1	0	BNT
Denmark	1982	1996, 2004	2002	6th	0	DR
Germany	1982	1998, 2006	2000, 2008	16	2	WDR (since 2008) ZDF (1982-2004)
Estonia	1994	2006	2018	7th	0	ERR
Finland	1984	2010		12	0	YLE
France	1982	1992, 1998, 2002	1994, 2000	8th	1	TF1 & France 3
Georgia	2012	2014		1	0	GPB
Greece	1990	1992, 1998, 2016	1994, 2000, 2018	10	1	ERT
Ireland	1986	1992, 2002	1994	7th	0	RTÉ
Israel	1986	1988	2018	2	0	IPBC (since 2018) IBA (1986)
Italy	1986	1992, 2004	2002	4th	0	Rai
Yugoslavia 1	1986	1994		4th	0	JRT
Croatia	1994	1996, 2000	1998, 2002	11	0	HRT
Latvia	1994	2004		5	0	LTV
Lithuania	1994	1996		1	0	LRT
Malta	2014			3	0	PBS
North Macedonia	1994	1996		1	0	MRI
Moldova	2014	2016		1	0	TRM
Netherlands	1984	1992, 2016	2000	12	2	NPO
Norway	1982	1984	1986	18th	1	NRK
Austria	1982	2018		18th	5	ORF
Poland	1992	1998	2000	13	3	TVP
Portugal	1990	1992, 1998, 2016	1994, 2014	4th	0	RTP
Romania	2002	2012		5	0	TVR
Russia	1994	1996, 2012	2000, 2018	8th	1	Rossiya K
San Marino	2016			2	0	SMRTV
Sweden	1986	1992, 1996, 2000, 2012	1994, 1998, 2002, 2014	13	1	SVT
Switzerland	1982	1998, 2008	2000	12	0	SRG SSR
Serbia	2008	2010		1	0	RTS
Serbia and Montenegro 2	2006	2008		1	0	UJRT
Slovakia	1998	2002		2	0	STV
Slovenia	1994			13	1	RTVSLO
Spain	1988	2002	2018	8th	0	RTVE
Czech Republic	2002	2004, 2008	2006, 2010	7th	0	ČT
Ukraine	2008	2010, 2014	2012	2	0	NTU
Hungary	1992	1996, 2002	2000, 2014	6th	0	MTVA
United Kingdom	1982	2012	2018	16	1	BBC
Belarus	2010	2014		2	0	BTRC
Cyprus	1988	2000, 2012	2002	10	0	CyBC

¹ Due to the dissolution of Yugoslavia, participation is no longer possible.

² Due to the dissolution of Serbia & Montenegro, participation is no longer possible.

Venue

Countries that have hosted at least one competition

Countries that hosted more than one competition

In contrast to the Eurovision Song Contest, the location of the EYM is decided through an application process by the EBU. The 19 editions of the EYM so far have taken place in 10 different countries. Austria hosted the competition most frequently with a total of six times. Since all six editions took place in Vienna, this city is automatically the city that hosted the competition the most. In addition, Austria is the only country that has hosted the competition four times in a row (2006 to 2012).

Hosted competitions	country	city	building	Year (s)
6th	Austria	Vienna	Wiener Musikverein	1990
			Wiener Konzerthaus	1998
			Rathausplatz (Vienna)	2006, 2008, 2010, 2012
3	Germany	Berlin	Schauspielhaus Berlin	2002
		Cologne	Cathedral plate	2014, 2016
2	Switzerland	Geneva	Victoria Hall	1984
		Lucerne	Culture and Congress Center Lucerne	2004
	United Kingdom	Manchester	Free Trade Hall	1982
		Edinburgh	Usher Hall	2018
1	Denmark	Copenhagen	Radiohuset	1986
	Netherlands	Amsterdam	Concertgebouw (Amsterdam)	1988
	Belgium	Brussels	Cirque Royal	1992
	Poland	Warsaw	National Philharmonic (Warsaw)	1994
	Portugal	Lisbon	Centro Cultural de Belém	1996
	Norway	Mountains	Grieg Hall	2000

Events

This section initially lists all issues for which no separate article exists.

1996

The eighth final was in Lisbon ( Portugal held) on 12 June 1996th Eight musicians were selected for the finals, which were broadcast in 22 countries.

placement	country	Musician	instrument
1st place	Germany	Julia Fischer	violin
2nd place	Austria	Lidia Baich	violin
3rd place	Estonia	Hanna Heinmaa	piano
-	France	Fanny Clamagirand	violin
-	Latvia	Baiba Skride	violin
-	Norway	Gunilla Süssmann	piano
-	Poland	Maria Nowak	violin
-	Switzerland	Antoine Rebstein	piano

1998

The ninth final was held in Vienna ( Austria ) on June 4, 1998.

placement	country	Musician	instrument
1st place	Austria	Lidia Baich	violin
2nd place	Croatia	Monika Leskovar	cello
3rd place	United Kingdom	Adrian Spillett	Drums
-	Finland	Kalle Toivio	piano
-	Latvia	Lauma Skride	piano
-	Slovakia	Michal Sťahel	cello
-	Slovenia	Borut Zagoranski	accordion
-	Sweden	David Sjogren	violin

2000

The tenth final was held in the Grieg Hall in Bergen ( Norway ) on June 15, 2000. A total of 24 participants were at the start, eight of them made it to the final. The finalists were accompanied by the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Simone Young .

placement	country	Musician	instrument
1st place	Poland	Stanislaw Drzewiecki	piano
2nd place	Finland	Timo-Veikko Valve	cello
3rd place	Russia	Nikolai Tokarev	piano
	France	David Guerrier	Trumpet
	Hungary	Ödön Rácz	double bass
	Netherlands	Gwyneth Wentink	harp
	Norway	David Couchero	violin
	Austria	Martin Grubinger	Drums

2002

The eleventh final was held in the Konzerthaus in Berlin ( Germany ) on June 19, 2002. A total of 20 participants were at the start, seven of which made it into the final.

placement	country	Musician	instrument
1st place	Austria	Dalibor Karvay	violin
2nd place	United Kingdom	Sarah Williamso	clarinet
3rd place	Slovenia	Karmen Pecar	cello
	Germany	Alina Pogostkin	violin
	Greece	Theodore Milkov	Drums
	Poland	Piotr Jasiurkowski	violin
	Czech Republic	Jakub Tylman	cello

2004

The twelfth final was held in the Culture and Congress Center in Lucerne ( Switzerland ) on May 27, 2004. A total of 16 participants were at the start, seven of them made it to the final. The finalists were accompanied by the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Christian Arming .

placement	country	Musician	instrument
1st place	Austria	Alexandra Soumm	violin
2nd place	Germany	Koryun Asatryan	saxophone
3rd place	Russia	Dinara Nadzhafova	piano
	Estonia	Jaan Kapp	piano
	Norway	Vilde Frang Bjaerke	violin
	Poland	Agnieszka Grzybowska	Drums
	Switzerland	Giuliano Sommerhalder	Trumpet

2006

The 13th final was held on the Rathausplatz during the opening of the Wiener Festwochen in Vienna ( Austria ) on May 12th, 2006. A total of 18 participants were at the start, seven of them made it to the final. The finalists were accompanied by the Wiener Symphoniker under the direction of Christian Arming .

placement	country	Musician	instrument
1st place	Sweden	Andreas Brantelid	cello
2nd place	Norway	Tine Thing Helseth	Trumpet
3rd place	Russia	Dmitry Mayboroda	piano
	Romania	Alina Elena Bercu	piano
	Switzerland	Simone Sommerhalder	oboe
	Austria	Daniela Koch	Flute
	United Kingdom	Jennifer Pike	violin

See also

• Eurovision Song Contest
• Junior Eurovision Song Contest
• Eurovision Dance Contest

Web links

• Homepage (English)

Footnotes

1. ^ Eurovision Young Musicians. Retrieved March 1, 2020 .