Eurovision Young Musicians: Today! Pre-Round (Show 1)

Eurovision Young Musician is a competition for European musicians which are between 11 and 19 years old. The competition is held every two years and started in 1982 in Manchester. First winner was Markus Pawlik and he played piano. On 31 May this years final will take place on the Roncalliplatz in the center of Cologne next to the big cathedral called 'Dom'. Host broadcaster is WDR. Today will be the first 'Pre-Round' in the Funkhaus in Cologne. Show starts at 2:00 pm (cet).

You can follow the Pre-Round via web stream:

• Pre-Round (Show 1 - 26.05.2014)

Running order Pre-Round (Show 1):

Sonoko Miriam Shimano Welde
(© Nadia Norskott)

Norway 

• Artist: Sonoko Miriam Shimano Welde (18)
• Instrument: Violin
• Pieces:
• Poème, Op.25 by Ernest Chausson

Sara Domjanić (© YoungMusicians.tv)

Croatia

• Artist: Sara Domjanić (16)
• Instrument: Violin
• Pieces: 
• Sonata for Violin on C Minor, op.45, no.3 (1. mvt: Allegro molto ed appassionato) by Edvard Grieg
• Valse-Scherzo in C Major, op.34 by Piotr Tchaikovsky

Kurt Aquilina
(© YoungMusicians.tv)

Malta 

• Artist: Kurt Aquilina (19)
• Instrument: Guitar
• Pieces: 
• M. Mancina (Arr. Perlov-Kindgren): August Lullaby
• F.Sor: Gallop
• N. Powlesland: Swing thing

Gergely Devich
(© Zoltán Nagy,MTVA)

Hungary

• Artist: Gergely Devich (15)
• Instrument: Violoncello
• Pieces: 
• Minuet in C Major by Haydn-Piatti
• Liebestraum by Liszt-Cassado
• Roumanien folk dances by Bartók-Silva

Urban Stanič (© Aleš Anžič)

 Slovenia 

• Artist: Urban Stanič (17)
• Instrument: Piano
• Pieces:
• Sonata/Capriccio K20, E - Major by Domenico Scarlatti
• Paraphrase de concert S. 434 by Franz Liszt
• Suggestion diabolique, op.4 by Sergej Prokofjev

Ziyu He
(© YoungMusicians.tv)

 Austria

• Artist: Ziyu He (15)
• Instrument: Violin
• Pieces: 
• Violinkonzert KV 207, 1. Satz mit Kadenz von Kurt Guntner by W.A. Mozart
• Capriccio op. 1/1 by Niccolò Paganini
• 2. Violinkonzert by Belá Bartók

Lucie Horsch (© NTR)

 The Netherlands

• Artist: Lucie Horsch (14)
• Instrument: Recorder
• Pieces:
• Dario Castello: Sonata seconda (Renaissance sopraan)
• J.S. Bach: Corrente
• Isang Yun: Der Besucher der Idylle (1993) (tenor)
• C.P.E. Bach: Adagio en Allegro uit Sonate Wq 135

Eurovision Young Musicians 2014

• Meet the participants (Part 1)
• Meet the participants (Part 2)
• Meet the participants (Part 3)

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