# 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

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 |
| 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 op. 87 No.5 in D | 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 in C-sharp minor op.45 | Frédéric Chopin |
| Greece | ERT | Antonios Sousamoglou | Violin | Monogramma for violin solo | C. 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 | 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 | K. 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.
| 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 | Roccoco Variations 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:
* 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

## Broadcasting

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.

## 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.