Eurovision Young Musicians 2024 was the 21st edition of Eurovision Young Musicians, held on 17 August 2024 at the in Bodø, Norway, and presented by and Mona Berntsen. It was organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster the (NRK). The Norwegian Radio Orchestra conducted by Eivind Aadland accompanied all competing performers.
The winner was violinist Leonhard Baumgartner representing Austria, with cellist Hugo Svedberg representing Sweden placing second, and flautist Fabian Egger representing Germany placing third.
Location
On 11 July 2023, the European Broadcasting Union announced on its official website that the contest would take place in the city of Bodø, Norway, during the city's role as European Capital of Culture. On Twitter, the organisation confirmed that has been chosen as the venue in which the competition would take place. This was the second edition organised in Norway since the first one in 2000, when it was held in Bergen.
Format The contest took place on 17 August 2024 at 21:00 CEST. Presenter and dancer Mona Berntsen were the hosts. The Norwegian Radio Orchestra conducted by Eivind Aadland accompanied all competing performers.
Jury members The jurors of the competition were announced on 11 July 2024 in a press release by NRK. They were: Andreas Sundén, clarinetist Marianna Shirinyan, classical pianist Martin Grubinger, multi-percussionist, who was a finalist in , presenter in and interval act at the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 Tabita Berglund (chair), conductor and cellist
Participants and results Eleven countries participated in the contest. Armenia and Switzerland return to the contest after having last participated in , and , respectively. On their Facebook post in July 2023, the European Broadcasting Union announced there were ten participation slots available for broadcasters who wished to take part in the contest. However on 10 January 2024, the EBU's senior project manager and official representative for Eurovision Young Musicians Amelie Rossignol announced that a maximum of eleven countries may participate in 2024. There would be ten broadcasters from other countries alongside the host country's broadcaster. This marked the first time in which the number of participants in the contest would be limited. The EBU justified this step as a quality assurance measure for the event.
On 29 February 2024, Swiss broadcaster SRF revealed that twelve countries would take part in the contest, however, Austrian broadcaster ORF reported on 3 April 2024 that eleven countries will compete at the contest: Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Czechia, France, Germany, Norway, Poland, Serbia, Sweden and Switzerland, with Serbia returning to the contest for the first time since its only appearance in . The list excludes Slovenia, which confirmed its intention on returning to the contest in June 2023. On 5 April 2024, Norwegian broadcaster officially revealed that eleven countries will participate, the same eleven countries that ORF reported two days prior.
+Participants and results of Eurovision Young Musicians 2024 Country Broadcaster Performer Instrument Piece(s) Composer(s) 1 NRK Sebastian Egebakken Svenøy Piano Piano Concerto No. 5, 3rd movement Camille Saint-Saëns 2 SRF Valerian Alfaré Euphonium Excerpt from Euphonium Concert Paul Mealor 3 RTBF Mahault Ska Piano Piano Concerto in G minor, 1st movement Felix Mendelssohn 4 ORF Leonhard Baumgartner Violin Violin Concerto No. 5 in A minor, 1st movement Henri Vieuxtemps 1 5 AMPTV Hayk Hekekyan Oboe Oboe Concerto No. 1 in D minor, 1st movement Ludwig August Lebrun 6 France Télévisions Pierre-Emmanuel Hurpeau Piano Piano Concerto in G, 3rd movement Maurice Ravel 7 SVT Hugo Svedberg Cello Cello Concerto No. 1 in D major, 1st movement Joseph Haydn 2 8 TVP Jeremi Tabęcki Clarinet Concert Fantasia on motives from Rigoletto Luigi Bassi 9 RTS Bogdan Dugalić Piano Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Sergei Rachmaninoff 10 WDR Fabian Egger Flute Tango Fantasia for flute and orchestra 3 11 ČT Adam Znamirovský Piano Piano Concerto No. 2, 3rd movement Camille Saint-Saëns
Other EBU members Active EBU member broadcasters in Bulgaria, Georgia, the Netherlands, Spain, and Wales confirmed non-participation prior to the announcement of the participants list by the EBU, while Croatia opted to not return after taking part in the prior edition. Slovenia had announced its intention to return to the contest after an absence, but did not appear on the final list of participants. In late-December 2023, the BBC announced that the United Kingdom had no plans to return to the 2024 competition, as the BBC Young Musician contest was held at the same time as the final of Eurovision Young Musicians.
Broadcasts All participating broadcasters may choose to have on-site or remote commentators providing insight and voting information to their local audience. Some broadcasters aired the show "as live" on 17 August 2024 at 21:00 CEST, with others moving the broadcast to other time slots or other dates.
+ Broadcasters and commentators in participating countries Country Date of broadcast Time Channel(s) Commentator(s) 17 August First Channel and Ruben Muradyan Musiq'3 21:25 CEST La Trois ČT art and 21:45 CEST WDR Fernsehen, WDR 3 NRK1 NRK Klassisk Anikken Sunde TVP Kultura, Sylwia Janiak-Kobylińska and Robert Kamyk RTS 2, Radio Belgrade 3 Tijana Lukić 22:45 CEST SRF 1 Beatrice Kern 23:30 CEST RTS 2 Benoît Perrier 18 August 22:10 CEST ORF 2 19 August 21:10 CEST NRK3 rowspan="3" 24 August 19:10 CEST SVT2 25 August 10:40 CEST 24 September 21:00 CEST Culturebox
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