Tonight, the Slovene national final for the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest was held. The eight qualifers from last night's semi final met the six pre-qualified entries and the jury and the televoters decided to send Quartissimo to Moscow with the song Love symphony.

The song Love symphony is written by Andrej Babic, who has already composed the Croatian entry in 2003 (Vise nisam tvoja, 15th), the Bosnia & Herzegovina entry in 2005 (Call me, 14th), the Slovene entry in 2007 (Cvet z juga, 15th) and the Portuguese entry in 2008 (Senhora do mar, 13th). Quartissimo is a strings quartet and the vocals are performed by Martina Majerle, who was together with composer Andrej Babic in Riga and Helsinki. Majerle performed the backing vocals for Montenegro in 2008. As the compeser revealed to us in an exclusive interview, it is not entirely out of the question to see him in Moscow as Majerle's backing vocalist.

• You can read the interview with the composer before the show here.

The complete results:

Like in many previous editions, the jury did not agree with the public at all. The favourites of the Slovenian public, Langa and Manca Spik, were left completely unpointed by the jury. This scenario reminds of EMA 2006, when Sasa Lendero won the televoting by a landslide with Mandoline, a song by Andrej Babic. Ironically, this time, the jury secured Babic's victory. Omar Naber was the most constant act tonight, receiving 8 points from both televoting and jury.

	Performer	Televote	Jury	Total
1st	Quartissimo	7	12	19
2nd	Omar Naber	8	8	16
=3rd	Samuel Lucas	3	10	13
=3rd	Alya & Rudy	6	7	13
5th	Skupina Langa & Manca	12	0	12
=6th	Ne me jugat & Slvko Ivancik	4	6	10
=6th	Cuki	10	0	10
8th	Nusca Drascek	5	3	8
=9th	Karmen Stavec	1	4	5
=9th	Lea Sirk	0	5	5
11th	Eva Cerne	2	1	3
12th	Bjonde	0	2	2
=13th	Brigita Suler	0	0	0
=13th	Nexys	0	0	0

esctoday.com poll results

Omar Naber had won the poll (29.4%) and finished second in the national final while Quartissimo, the winner, had come third in the poll with rather strong 18.3%. However, the runner-up in the poll, Brigita Suler, got no points at all and hence finished equal last.

Slovenia was represented in the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest be Rebeka Dremelj, who finished 11th in the first semi final with Vrag naj vzname thus not making it to the final. In 2009, Slovenia will take part in the second semi final on 14th May.

Watch the semi final performance of the winning song below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HrFJFdMC7Y

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