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 and host broadcaster Telewizja Polska, 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, the Netherlands withdrew, and Yugoslavia being banned from entering 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 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

RTR

Anna Ajrapetiants

Piano

Ala Albeniz

Rodion Shchedrin

France Télévisions

Nicolas Delclaud

Violin

Monologue Capriccio de la Vie d'artista

B. Petrov

HRT

Ana Vidović

Guitar

Serenata española

TVP

Lukasz Szyrner

Cello

Danse du diable vert

Gaspar Cassadó

ORF

Bernard Hufnagl

Trombone

Sonatine for trombone and piano, Allegro vivance

Kazimierz Serocki

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.

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

Jury members

The jury members consisted of the following:

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.

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.