Eurovision Young Musicians 2022 will travel to Montpellier in the summer

France Télévisions will host the 20th edition of the Eurovision Young Musicians on 23 July 2022 – a summary of the latest Eurovision contest in France.

The event will be organised in partnership with the Radio France Occitanie Montpellier Festival and Radio France in 2022. The finals of the event for talented young classical musicians aged between 12 and 21 will be broadcast live worldwide on Saturday 23 July from the Festival Radio France Occitanie in Montpellier.

Eurovision Young Musicians 2022 – The Participants

This year’s classical music competition is expected to bring the smallest number of participants in the history of the event to the French city: only eight national broadcasters will compete in Eurovision Young Musicians 2022, as announced on 21 February, and later expanded to nine (9).

Participating country (and broadcaster)	Performer	Instrument
Austria (ORF)	Alexander Svetnitsky-Ehrenreich	clarinet
Belgium (RTBF)	Thaïs Defoort	cello
Czech Republic (CT)	Daniel Matejča	violin
France (France Télévisions)	Maxime Grizard	violin
Croatia(HRT)	Ivan Petrović-Poljak	piano
Poland(TVP)	Milena Pioruńska	violin
Germany(WDR)	Philipp Schupelius	cello
Norway(NRK)	Alma Serafin Kraggerud	violin
Sweden(SVT)	Lukas Flink	trombone

Returning countries for 2022 include the young musical talent of Austria and France, but this year will see the absence of Albania, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Malta, Russia, San Marino, Slovenia, Spain and the United Kingdom, which will not be competing this season.

In the coming weeks, we will give you a further overview of the 2022 classical music competition in France…

About Eurovision Young Musicians in a nutshell

The competition has been held every two years since 1982. The international classical music event aims to provide the widest possible stage for talented young classical musicians and help them launch their international careers. Previous winners of the Young Musicians Eurovision have gone on to achieve huge success on the world stage, including Julian Rachlin (violin), Natalie Clein (cello) and Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad (viola).

The first Eurovision for Young Musicians (EYM) competition was held in Manchester (UK) on 11 June 1982. Since then, it has been held six times in Vienna, twice in Cologne and Switzerland (Geneva, Lucerne), and once each in Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Brussels, Warsaw, Lisbon, Bergen and Berlin, but in 2020, the event, which was scheduled to take place in Zagreb, was first postponed and then unofficially cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Datatable: Wikipedia (reviewed by OurVision International)
Illustration: EBU
Source: EBU / OurVision International