Eurovision Young Musicians 1994

7. Eurovision Young Musicians
date	June 9, 1994 (semi-final 1) June 10, 1994 (semi-final 2) June 14, 1994 (final)
Host country	Poland
venue	Warsaw National Philharmonic , Warsaw
Broadcasting television station
participating countries	24
winner	United Kingdom
First time participation	Estonia Croatia Latvia Lithuania North Macedonia Russia Slovenia
Returning participants	France Greece Ireland Portugal Sweden
Withdrawn participants	Yugoslavia
Voting rule	A professional jury determines the first three places. The remaining results remain unpublished.
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The 7th Eurovision Young Musicians took place on June 14, 1994 in the Warsaw National Philharmonic Hall in Warsaw . The host was TVP , which hosted this competition for the first time.

The winner of the 1994 edition was the British cellist Natalie Clein . It was Britain's first win in the competition. On the other hand, the Latvian pianist Liene Circene came in second, while the Swedish violinist Malin Broman took third. It was the first time in the competition that no male interpreter was among the top three.

venue

TVP selected the Warsaw National Philharmonic in Warsaw as the venue . It was the first time that Poland hosted a Eurovision event.

It was also only the second time that the previous year's winner organized the competition. Previously, only Austria succeeded in doing this in 1990 . After all, Poland won the competition in 1992 , but still had to take part in an application process to host it.

format

Each country sends a musician who is not older than 19 years to the competition. He then plays an instrument and presents a piece with it. The musician is supported by the Warsaw National Philharmonic . Since the number of participants would exceed the time frame for a final, there were two semifinals. In the end, a professional jury decided on only eight countries that will appear in the final. The jury then also decides the first three places there. The following jurors sat on the jury in 1990:

• Henryk Mikołaj Górecki (Chairman)
• Marc Grauwels
• Jorma Panula
• Alfredo Riccardi
• Carole Dawn Reinhart
• Wanda Wiłkomirska
• Aria Dzierlatka
• Frantisek Maxian
• Emma Johnson

Moderation

There is no information on the moderation of the 1994 competition.

Attendees

Countries that participated in 1994

Countries that have already been eliminated in the semi-finals

Countries that have participated in the past but not in 1994

A total of 24 countries took part in Eurovision Young Musicians 1994, which is the highest number of participants in this competition to date.

After the break-up of Yugoslavia and the break-up of the Soviet Union, there were many new sovereign states that took part in this competition for the first time. Estonia, Croatia, Lithuania, Russia and Slovenia debuted in this competition for the first time, while Latvia and North Macedonia made their debuts at a Eurovision event. Nevertheless, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia withdrew from the event after the fall of Yugoslavia.

Even so, many countries also returned to the competition. Finally, France, Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Sweden returned to the competition, as all of these countries withdrew from the competition in 1992 .

Semifinals

In order not to exceed the time frame of the final, two semi-finals took place on June 9 and 10, 1994 before the final. The starting order, the format and the course of these semi-finals is unknown, but information about the participants of the respective countries, their instruments and their pieces is available.

The following countries were eliminated in the semi-finals:

country	Interpreter	instrument	piece
Belgium	David Cohen	cello	Cantillene-jeu by PB Michel
Germany	Luise Wiedemann	bassoon	Sonata in F major op.168, 2nd part by Camille Saint-Saëns
France	Nicolas Delclaud	violin	Monologue Capriccio de la Vie d'artista by B. Petrov
Greece	Antonios Sousamoglou	violin	Monogramma for violin solo by C. Samaras
Ireland	Finghin Collins	piano	Prelude in C-sharp minor op.45 by Frédéric Chopin
Croatia	Ana Vidović	guitar	Serenata española by Joaquín Malats
Lithuania	Vilhelmas Čepinskis	violin	Concerto No.2 part 1 by Balsis
North Macedonia	Kalina Mrmevska	piano	Sonata op.28 No. 3 by Sergei Prokofiev
Norway	Rolf-Erik Nystrøm	saxophone	Suite pour saxophone alto et piano, part I by Bonneau
Austria	Bernard Hufnagl	trombone	Sonatina for trombone and piano. Allegro vivance by Kazimierz Serocki
Poland (hosts)	Lukasz Szyrner	cello	Danse du diable vert by Gaspar Cassadó
Portugal	Ruben Da Luz Santos	trombone	Bach by K. Starzenegger
Russia	Anna Ajrapetiants	piano	Ala Albeniz by Rodion Shchedrin
Slovenia	Mate Bekavac	clarinet	Solo de concours op.10 by H. Rabasud
Spain	Dolores Rodríguez Paredes	guitar	Estudio No.11 by Heitor Villa-Lobos
Cyprus	Manolis Neophytou	piano	Prelude and Fugue op.87 No.5 in D by Dmitri Shostakovich

final

The finale took place on June 14, 1994 in the Warsaw National Philharmonic in Warsaw . Eight countries competed against each other, with only the first three places being known.

space	Start number	country	Interpreter	instrument	piece
1.	7th	United Kingdom	Natalie Clein	cello	Cello Concerto in E minor, op.85, part I by Edward Elgar
2.	2	Latvia	Liene Circene	piano	Dance Macabre by Franz Liszt
3.	6th	Sweden	Malin Broman	violin	Violin Concerto in A minor op.53, part III by Antonín Dvořák
-	1	Hungary	Mark Farago	piano	Dance Macabre by Franz Liszt
-	3	Switzerland	David Bruchez	trombone	Ballade for Trombone and Orchestra by Frank Martin
-	4th	Finland	Pia Toivio	cello	Roccoco Variations op.33 part II, VI, VII by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
-	5	Estonia	Marko Martin	piano	Concerto in C minor, no.1 op.35, part III, IV by Dmitri Shostakovich
-	8th	Denmark	Frederik Magle	organ	Concerto for Organ and Orchestra in G minor, part II by Francis Poulenc

transmission

A total of 24 television companies broadcast the event:

country	Channel
participating countries
Belgium	RTBF
Denmark	DR
Germany	ZDF
Estonia	ETV
Finland	Yle TV1
France	France 3
Greece	ERT
Ireland	RTÉ
Croatia	HRT
Latvia	LTV
Lithuania	LRT
North Macedonia	MRI
Norway	NRK
Austria	ORF
Poland	TVP
Portugal	RTP
Russia	Rossiya K
Sweden	SVT 2
Switzerland	SRG SSR
Slovenia	RTV SLO
Spain	TVE
Hungary	MTV
United Kingdom	BBC
Cyprus	CyBC

Web links

• Website (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Eurovision Young Musicians 1994. In: youngmusicians.tv. EBU , 2014, archived from the original on October 18, 2014 ; accessed on August 21, 2019 (English). 
2. ^ Eurovision Young Musicians 1994. In: youngmusicians.tv. EBU , 2014, archived from the original on October 18, 2014 ; accessed on August 21, 2019 (English). 
3. ^ Eurovision Young Musicians 1994. In: youngmusicians.tv. EBU , 2014, archived from the original on October 18, 2014 ; accessed on August 21, 2019 (English).