The Eurovision Young Musicians 2014 was the seventeenth edition of the

Eurovision Young Musicians Eurovision Young Musicians (), often shortened to EYM, or Young Musicians, is a biennial classical music competition for musicians aged between 12 and 21. It is organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) between members of the union, who ...

, held outside the

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, Germany, on 31 May 2014. Organised by the

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(EBU) and host broadcaster

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(WDR), musicians from fourteen countries participated in the televised final. This was the fifth time that the competition was held on an open-air stage. Germany previously hosted the contest in . All participants performed a classical piece of their choice accompanied by the

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, conducted by

Kristiina Poska Kristiina Poska (born 12 July 1978, Türi, Estonia) is an Estonian conductor. Biography At age eight, Poska began piano lessons. She graduated from Türi Music School in piano studies in 1994, and then studied choral conducting at the Georg Ots ...

. This year, 14 countries participated in the contest. and made their debut at the

. , , , and decided not to participate in this year's competition. returned for the first time since . last took part in , whilst had not entered since . Ziyu He of Austria won the contest, with Slovenia and Hungary placing second and third respectively. In 2014, Austria also won the

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Location

Roncalliplatz, a square outside the

, was the host location for the 2014 edition of the Eurovision Young Musicians. The preliminary round was held at the Kleiner Sendesaal in WDR's .

Format

Sabine Heinrich Sabine Heinrich (born 27 December 1976 in Unna, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany) is a German radio and television presenter. Career Heinrich worked at the radio station 1LIVE in Cologne from 2001 until June 2016. At 1LIVE she presented the ...

was the host of the 2014 contest.

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performed as the interval act. The semi final stage of the contest was dropped this year, however a new preliminary round was held over two days on 26–27 May and was streamed live on youngmusicians.tv. Each musician was required to play for up to fifteen minutes in this round and a maximum of five minutes in the Grand Final on 31 May. The international jury scored each musician and performance during the preliminary round. The scores were added to those given in the Grand Final to decide the three prize winners. The candidates were accompanied by the

, under the leadership of Estonian conductor

. The winner received a prize of 10,000 euros and was given the opportunity to appear with the

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in 2015. The participants in second and third place were awarded 7,000 and 3,000 euros respectively.

Participating countries

All participating countries automatically qualified for the final on 31 May 2014. The semi final elimination stage was replaced by a two-day preliminary round, that was held on 26 and 27 May respectively at the Kleiner Sendesaal in WDR's Funkhaus Wallrafplatz. The professional jury awarded points in this round.

Preliminary round

Part 1 (26 May 2014)

Part 2 (27 May 2014)

File:Eym2014 Finale Sabine Heinrich und Kristiina Poska.jpg,

(left) and

(right) at the Eurovision Young Musicians 2014 final. File:Eym2014 Finale Siegerfoto 1.jpg, Prize winners: Hungary, Slovenia and Austria

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.

Jury members

The list of jury members are as follows: * –

Clemens Hellsberg Clemens Hellsberg (born 28 March 1952) is an Austrian violinist and from 1997 to 2014 was director of the Wiener Philharmoniker. Life Born in Linz, after attending the Schottengymnasium in Vienna, Hellsberg studied musicology and ancient hist ...

(chairman) * – Markus Pawlik (Winner of the 1982 Contest) * – Carol McGonnell * –

Maurice Steger Maurice Steger (born 1971 in Winterthur, Switzerland) is a Swiss recorder player and conductor, mostly in Baroque music. Career Maurice Steger is a frequent guest soloist with leading Baroque ensembles such as the Akademie für Alte Musik Berli ...

* –

Uroš Lajovic Uroš Lajovic is a Slovenian conductor and professor. He has served as guest conductor, permanent conductor, artistic director and artistic advisor at numerous prominent European orchestras. He is professor emeritus at the University of Music a ...

Broadcasting

The contest was broadcast by the following broadcasters:

Other countries

* –

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(BTRC) informed Oikotimes that they would be withdrawing from Eurovision Young Musicians on 6 January 2014. * –

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(NTU) confirmed to Eurovoix.com that Ukraine would not take part in EYM 2014 on 23 January 2014.

References

External links

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