Armenia to take part in Eurovision Young Musicians 2012

Armenia, along with the other members of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), is set to attend the "Eurovision Young Musician 2012" in May.

According to a press release on the EBU official website, the 14 members of the Union (Armenia, Austria, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Georgia, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovenia and Ukraine) are going to represent their solo candidates to first compete in a preliminary Semi-Final round, out of which the 7 best will be selected by an international jury to perform live as finalists in the show at the Rathausplatz (Vienna City Hall Square), in front of a live audience of tens of thousands.

The seven finalists will be accompanied by the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of young German conductor Cornelius Meister. The Event will be hosted by the famous Austrian multi-percussionist, Martin Grunbinger.

Tert.am did not manage to find out the Armenian participant’s name as the head of the Armenian delegation to Eurovision, Gohar Gasparyan, was not available on the phone.

Precisely 30 years after the first edition of the Young Musicians competition, the 16th EYM Final will be transmitted on 11 May 2012 live on television across Europe and the world via the Eurovision Network. The winner of the 2010 contest was Slovenia.