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A third contestant quits Cliburn

A third contestant quits Cliburn

Two dropped out in the week the competition started. A third, China’s Xiaofu Ju, withdrew ‘for medical reasons’ as the quarter-finalists were about to be announced.

 
The following 17 are still in the running:

Piotr Alexewicz, Poland, 25
Jonas Aumiller, Germany, 26
Alice Burla, Canada, 28
Yangrui Cai 蔡阳睿, China, 24
Elia Cecino, Italy, 23
Yanjun Chen 陈艳君, China, 23
Shangru Du 杜尚儒, China, 27
Carter Johnson, Canada/United States, 28
Xiaofu Ju 鞠小夫, China, 25
Mikhail Kambarov Михаил Камбаров, Russia, 24
David Khrikuli, Georgia, 24
Philipp Lynov Филипп Лынов, Russia, 26
Jonathan Mamora, United States, 30
Evren Ozel, United States, 26
Chaeyoung Park 박채영, South Korea, 27
Aristo Sham 沈靖韜, Hong Kong China, 29
Vitaly Starikov Виталий Стариков, Israel/Russia, 30
Angel Stanislav Wang, United States, 22

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