Eurovision Young Musicians 2022
Dates
Final	23 July 2022
Host
Venue	The Corum, Montpellier, France
Presenter(s)	Judith Chaine Vincent Delbushaye
Musical director	Pierre Dumoussaud
Directed by	Franck Broqua
Executive producer	Gérard Pont Gérard Lacroix Sylvan Plantard
Host broadcaster	Radio France France Télévisions
Website	youngmusicians.tv
Participants
Number of entries	9
Returning countries	Austria  France
Non-returning countries	Albania  Estonia  Greece  Hungary  Israel  Malta  Russia  San Marino  Slovenia  Spain  United Kingdom
Participation map      Competing countries     Countries that participated in the past but not in 2022
Vote
Voting system	Each juror awards a mark from 1–10 to each performer based on specific criteria
Winning musician	Czech Republic Daniel Matejča
2018 ← Eurovision Young Musicians → 2024

The Eurovision Young Musicians 2022 was the 20th edition of the Eurovision Young Musicians. It took place at the Corum in Montpellier, France on 23 July 2022. The live show was hosted by French playwright Judith Chaine and Belgian radio presenter Vincent Delbushaye, with the Montpellier Occitanie National Opera Orchestra conducted by Pierre Dumoussaud. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), this edition was co-hosted by French broadcasters Radio France and France Télévisions, as part of a summer series of music events called Festival Radio France Occitanie Montpellier.

Musicians representing nine countries with EBU membership participated in the contest, with Austria and host country France returning. Eleven countries, namely Albania, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Malta, Russia, San Marino, Slovenia, Spain and the United Kingdom, decided to not participate in this edition after having taken part in the previous contest in 2018. Although initially not included on the list of participants, it was later revealed that Croatia would still take part. The winner was the Czech Republic, represented by musician Daniel Matejča, marking the country's first win in the competition and at any Eurovision event since Eurovision Young Dancers 2003.

A 2020 contest was initially planned to take place in Zagreb, Croatia on 21 June to coincide with World Music Day,^[1] however, it was postponed indefinitely as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.^[2] The future of the contest remained uncertain until 3 February 2022 when the Norwegian broadcaster NRK and later the Belgian broadcaster RTBF confirmed that there would be a 2022 edition.^[3][4]

Broadcasters that confirmed their presence at the 2020 contest until its postponement were: Croatia (HRT), Czechia (ČT), Estonia (ERR), Germany (WDR), Greece (ERT), Malta (PBS), Norway (NRK), Poland (TVP), Slovenia (RTVSLO), Sweden (SVT) and Ukraine (UA:PBC).^[2] Among them, Estonia, Greece, Malta, Slovenia and Ukraine did not make an appearance at the 2022 contest.^[5]

Croatia and Sweden had already selected their entrants for the 2020 contest prior to postponement; Croatia selected Ivan Petrović-Poljak, who would be reselected to represent the country at the 2022 contest,^[6] whilst Sweden selected Tekla Nilsson,^[7] who would not compete in 2022. Slovenia selected its representative after the contest was postponed, having selected Sebastijan Buda,^[8] but Slovenia did not compete at the 2022 edition.

The event took place in Montpellier during the annual summer festival, Festival Radio France Occitanie Montpellier,^[3][4] and this was the first time that France had hosted the contest. The selected venue was the Corum, a building that houses both a conference centre and an opera house (Opéra Berlioz), and is located in the centre of the city in southern France. The last time that France hosted a Eurovision event was the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2021 in Paris.

On 28 March 2022, the Culturebox channel announced on social networks that the playwright Judith Chaine would be the presenter of the twentieth edition of the competition. She is known for having presented the Musiques en fête since 2018, alongside Cyril Féraud and the Victoires de la musique classique since 2019 and has worked for radio station France Musique since 2007. On 26 June 2022, it was announced that Vincent Delbushaye would join as co-host of the competition. Belgian-born Delbushaye is a radio presenter for Musiq'3, the classical radio station of French-language broadcaster RTBF.^[9]

On 5 July 2022, France Télévisions announced the jurors of the competition. The jurors for the final are Lithuanian pianist and chair of the jury Mūza Rubackytė, Swiss oboist Nora Cismondi, director of the Festival Radio France Montpellier Jean-Pierre Rousseau, French cellist Christian-Pierre La Marca, and Albanian violinist Tedi Papavrami.^[10]

For a country to be eligible for potential participation in the Eurovision Young Musicians, it must be an active member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).^[11] Nine countries participated in the competition, the lowest number since 1984.^[12] Of the participants, Austria and France returned after being absent the previous edition, while 11 nations that had participated in the last edition did not return this year. Non-returning countries included Albania, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Malta, Russia, San Marino, Slovenia, Spain and United Kingdom.^[12] The winner of the event was the Czech Republic with Daniel Matejča's violin performance of the 3rd and 4th mvt from Violin Concerto No. 1 by D. Shostakovich.

Participants and results^[13]

R/O	Country[12]	Broadcaster	Performer(s)	Instrument	Piece(s)	Composer(s)	Pl.
1	Croatia	HRT	Ivan Petrović-Poljak	Piano[14]	Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, 3rd and 4th mvt	Franz Liszt
2	France	France Télévisions	Maxime Grizard	Cello[15]	Cello concerto in B minor, 1st mvt	Antonín Dvořák
3	Poland	TVP	Milena Pioruńska	Violin[16]	Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor, 3rd mvt	Henryk Wieniawski
4	Germany	WDR	Philipp Schupelius	Cello[17]	Pezzo capriccioso, op.62	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky	2
5	Austria	ORF	Alexander Svetnitsky-Ehrenreich	Clarinet[18]	Clarinet concerto No. 2 in E flat major, 3rd mvt	Carl Maria von Weber
6	Norway	NRK	Alma Serafin Kraggerud	Violin[19]	Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, op.28	Camille Saint-Saëns	3
7	Belgium	RTBF	Thaïs Defoort	Cello[20]	Cello concerto in E minor, op.85, 1st mvt	Edward Elgar
8	Sweden	SVT	Lukas Flink	Trombone[21]	Trombone Concerto, 1st mvt	Henri Tomasi
9	Czech Republic	ČT	Daniel Matejča[22]	Violin[14]	Violin Concerto No. 1, 3rd and 4th mvt	Dmitri Shostakovich	1

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 23 July 2022 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)	Ref(s)
Belgium	23 July 2022	Live	La Trois, Musiq'3	No commentary	[9]
Croatia		Live	HRT 3	Ivana Kocelj	[23][24]
Czech Republic		Live	ČT art	Jiří Vejvoda [cs]	[25]
France		Live	France Musique	No commentary	[26]
		21:10 CEST	Culturebox		[5][27]
Norway		Live	NRK1	Arild Erikstad [no]	[28]
Poland		Live	TVP Kultura	Un­known	[29]
Germany	24 July 2022	7:40 CEST	WDR Fernsehen		[30]
Austria		22:10 CEST	ORF 2	Teresa Vogl [de]	[31][32]
Sweden	29 July 2022	—[a]	SVT Play	Camilla Lundberg [sv]	[33]
	30 July 2022	20:01 CEST	SVT 2		[5]

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