Eurovision Young Musicians 2004

Eurovision Young Musicians 2004
Eurovision Young Musicians 2004
Dates
Semi-final 1	22 May 2004
Semi-final 2	23 May 2004
Final	27 May 2004
Host
Venue	Culture and Congress Centre, Lucerne, Switzerland
Presenter(s)	Christian Arming
Musical director	Christian Arming
Directed by	Mando Bernardinello
Executive producer	Thomas Beck; Renzo Rota;
Host broadcaster	Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SRG SSR)
Website	youngmusicians.tv
Participants
Number of entries	17
Number of finalists	7
Debuting countries	None
Returning countries	Belgium
Non-returning countries	Czech Republic; Denmark; Italy; Latvia
	Participation map Finalist countries Countries eliminated in the preliminary round Countries that participated in the past but not in 2004;
Vote
Voting system	Jury chose their top 3 favourites by vote.
Winning musician	Austria; Alexandra Soumm;
	2002 ← Eurovision Young Musicians → 2006

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.^[1] 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 1984. 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.^[1]

Czech Republic, Denmark, Italy and Latvia decided not to participate, whilst Belgium returned.^[1] Albania was listed as the 18th participant, performing 9th at the first day of semi-finals, however in the end did not take part or broadcast the contest.^[2]

Alexandra Soumm of Austria won the contest, with Germany and Russia placing second and third respectively.^[3]

Location

Lucerne Culture and Congress Centre, was the host venue for the 2004 edition of the Eurovision Young Musicians.^[1] 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.

Format

Christian Arming was the host of the 2004 contest. For the first time, the host and the conductor was the same person.^[1]

Results

Preliminary round

A total of seventeen countries took part in the preliminary round of the 2004 contest, of which seven qualified to the televised grand final. The following countries failed to qualify.^[1]

Final

Awards were given to the top three countries. 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.^[3]

Participants and results
R/O	Country	Broadcaster	Performer(s)	Instrument	Piece(s)	Composer(s)	Pl.
1	Austria	ORF	Alexandra Soumm	Violin	Violin Concerto No.1, 1st Mov.	Niccolò Paganini	1
2	Germany	ZDF	Koryun Asatryan	Saxophone	Pequeña Czarda	Pedro Iturralde	2
3	Russia	RTR	Dinara Nadzhafova (Klinton)	Piano	Piano Concerto No.2, 3rd Mov.	Camille Saint-Saëns	3
4	Poland	TVP	Agnieszka Grzybowska	Percussion	Concerto for Marimba and Strings	Ney Rosauro
5	Estonia	ERR	Jaan Kapp	Piano	Piano Concerto No.2, 3rd Mov.	Sergei Rachmaninoff
6	Switzerland	SRG SSR	Giuliano Sommerhalder	Trumpet	Trumpet concerto No.2, 2nd and 3rd Movs.	André Jolivet
7	Norway	NRK	Vilde Frang Bjærke	Violin	Violin Concerto, 3rd Mov.	Jean Sibelius

Jury members

The jury members consisted of the following:^[1]

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.^[4] The Final was also broadcast by the Swiss radio channels and was also shown in Canada and Australia.^[5]

Broadcasters in participating countries
Country	Broadcaster(s)
Austria	ORF
Belgium	RTBF
Belgium	VRT
Croatia	HRT
Cyprus	CyBC
Czech Republic	ČT
Estonia	ERR
Finland	Yle
Germany	ZDF
Greece	ERT
Netherlands	NOS
Norway	NRK
Poland	TVP
Romania	TVR
Russia	RTR
Slovenia	RTVSLO
Sweden	SVT
Switzerland	SRG SSR
United Kingdom	BBC

Broadcasters in non-participating countries
Country	Broadcaster
Australia	Unknown
Canada	Unknown

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Eurovision Young Musicians 2004: About the show". European Broadcasting Union. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
^ "News - Medienportal - SRF" (PDF).
^ ^a ^b "Eurovision Young Musicians 2004: Participants". youngmusicians.tv. European Broadcasting Union. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
^ "Eurovison Young Musicians". EBU. 26 May 2004. Archived from the original on 8 April 2005. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
^ "EBU.CH :: 2004_05_28_EYM". EBU. 8 April 2005. Archived from the original on 8 April 2005. Retrieved 4 May 2018.

External links

Official website

[Show-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Eurovision Young Musicians 2004: About the show". European Broadcasting Union. Retrieved 5 October 2014.

[2] "News - Medienportal - SRF" (PDF).

[Results-3] "Eurovision Young Musicians 2004: Participants". youngmusicians.tv. European Broadcasting Union. Retrieved 5 October 2014.

[4] "Eurovison Young Musicians". EBU. 26 May 2004. Archived from the original on 8 April 2005. Retrieved 4 May 2018.

[5] "EBU.CH :: 2004_05_28_EYM". EBU. 8 April 2005. Archived from the original on 8 April 2005. Retrieved 4 May 2018.

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