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Eurovision Young Musicians 2004

International youth classical music contest

Summary

International youth classical music contest

Field	Value
name	Eurovision Young Musicians
year	2004
logo	Eurovision Young Musicians 2004 logo.jpg
semi1	22 May 2004
semi2	23 May 2004
final	27 May 2004
presenter	Christian Arming
exproducer
musdirector	Christian Arming
director	Mando Bernardinello
organiser	European Broadcasting Union (EBU)
host	Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SRG SSR)
venue	Culture and Congress Centre
Lucerne, Switzerland
winmusician
vote	Jury chose their top 3 favourites by vote.
entries	17
finalists	7
return
nonreturn

Map Final	Y
qualification_show	the preliminary round

Lucerne, Switzerland

Italy Italy

The Eurovision Young Musicians 2004 was the twelfth edition of the Eurovision Young Musicians, held at the Culture and Congress Centre in Lucerne, Switzerland, on 27 May 2004. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SRG SSR), musicians from seven countries participated in the televised final. Switzerland and broadcaster SRG SSR previously hosted the contest in . A total of seventeen countries took part in the competition therefore a semi-final was held in the same venue on 22 and 23 May 2004. All participants performed a classical piece of their choice accompanied by the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Christian Arming.

Czech Republic, Denmark, Italy and Latvia decided not to participate, whilst Belgium returned.

Alexandra Soumm of Austria won the contest, with Germany and Russia placing second and third respectively.

Location

Culture and Congress Centre, Lucerne. Venue of the Eurovision Young Musicians 2004.

Lucerne Culture and Congress Centre, was the host venue for the 2004 edition of the Eurovision Young Musicians. It was built according to the plans of the architect Jean Nouvel and was inaugurated in 1998 with a concert by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Claudio Abbado.

For the week of the contest, a sound curtain was installed on the outer edge of the building's canopy to create a meeting concourse area; it uses technology to diffuse the sounds from the inside of the venue into the outside space.

Format

Christian Arming was the host of the 2004 contest. For the first time, the host and the conductor was the same person.

Results

Preliminary round

Broadcasters from seventeen countries took part in the preliminary round of the 2004 contest, of which seven qualified to the televised grand final. The following participants failed to qualify.

Country	Broadcaster	Performer	Instrument
	RTBF, VRT	Philippe Ivanov	Piano
	HRT	Kajana Pačko	Cello
Cyprus	CyBC	Andreas Ioannides	Piano
	Yle	Santtu-Matias Rouvali	Percussion
	ERT	Joánna Gaitáni	Violin
	NOS		Flute
	TVR	Octavian Alin Lup	Cello
	RTVSLO	Marina Golja	Marimba
	SVT	Andrej Power	Violin
	BBC	Nicola Benedetti	Violin

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(s)	Instrument	Piece(s)	Composer(s)	Pl.	1
ORF	Alexandra Soumm	Violin	Violin Concerto No.1, 1st Mov.	Niccolò Paganini	1
ZDF	Koryun Asatryan	Saxophone	Pequeña Czarda	Pedro Iturralde	2
RTR	Dinara Nadzhafova (Klinton)	Piano	Piano Concerto No.2, 3rd Mov.	Camille Saint-Saëns	3
TVP	Agnieszka Grzybowska	Percussion	Concerto for Marimba and Strings	Ney Rosauro
ERR	Jaan Kapp	Piano	Piano Concerto No.2, 3rd Mov.	Sergei Rachmaninoff
SRG SSR	{{ill	Giuliano Sommerhalder	de	fr}}	Trumpet	Trumpet concerto No.2, 2nd and 3rd Movs.	André Jolivet
NRK	Vilde Frang Bjærke	Violin	Violin Concerto, 3rd Mov.	Jean Sibelius

Jury members

The jury members consisted of the following:

Switzerland – Michael Haefliger (head)
United Kingdom – Harold Clarkson
Romania – Mihaela Ursuleasa
Italy – Bruno Giuranna
Austria – Milan Turković
United States/Canada – Harvey Sachs

Broadcasting

The competition was transmitted live over the Eurovision Network by the participating broadcasters. The Final was also broadcast by the second channels of the Swiss radio stations and was also shown in Canada and Australia.

Country	Broadcaster	Channel(s)
ORF
RTBF
VRT
HRT
CyBC
ERR
Yle
ZDF
ERT
NOS
NRK	NRK1
TVP
TVR	TVR Cultural
RTR
RTVSLO
SVT
SRG SSR	SF2, DRS 2
TSR 2	Flavia Matea
BBC	BBC Four	Stephanie Hughes

Country	Broadcaster	Australia	Canada	Czech Republic
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References and notes

Footnotes

References

"Eurovision Young Musicians 2004: About the show". European Broadcasting Union.
"News - Medienportal - SRF".
"Eurovision Young Musicians 2004: Participants". European Broadcasting Union.
"OOS | s-cape KKL, Lucerne".
(26 May 2004). "Eurovison Young Musicians". EBU.
"Wayback Machine".
(8 April 2005). "EBU.CH :: 2004_05_28_EYM". EBU.
https://www.e-newspaperarchives.ch/?a=d&d=TGZ20040619-01.2.56
(27 May 2004). "TV – guiden – torsdag 27. mai". [[Rogalands Avis]].
(27 May 2004). "Programe". [[Ziua]].
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https://www.e-newspaperarchives.ch/?a=d&d=LLE20040527-01.2.281
(27 May 2004). "Eurovision Young Musician". BBC.

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