Violinist Min Kym and author Susan Cain discuss the life-altering loss of a beloved instrument chronicled in Kym’s new memoir “Gone: A Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung.” Buy a copy here: [ Ссылка ]

From an early age, music was the center of Myn Kim’s life. At seven years old, she was a prodigy, the youngest ever student at the famed Purcell School. At eleven, she won her first international prize; at eighteen, violinist great Ruggiero Ricci called her “the most talented violinist I’ve ever taught.” And at twenty-one, she found “the one,” the violin she would play as a soloist: a rare 1696 Stradivarius. Her career took off.

Then, in a London café, her violin was stolen. She felt as though she had lost her soulmate, and with it her sense of who she was. Overnight she became unable to play or function, stunned into silence.

In this conversation, Min Kym and Susan Cain discuss how Min recovered from her loss and rediscovered her own voice. The event also features violin performances from Bach’s “Partita No. 2” and Massenet’s “Meditation.”

Min Kym lives in London and performs internationally. Her Sony recording of the Brahms Violin Concerto with Sir Andrew Davis and the Philharmonia Orchestra was released in 2010. Susan Cain is the co-founder of Quiet Revolution and the author of the bestsellers "Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverts," and "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in A World That Can’t Stop Talking."

Recorded May 1, 2017

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