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Theft of Pounds 1.2 million Stradivarius is like losing a limb for young virtuoso
2010
Overview
[Min-Jin Kym], 32, is too distraught to discuss the theft but in a statement released through British Transport Police she almost echoes [Julian Lloyd Webber]'s words. \"I am naturally devastated at the theft of the violin,\" she says. \"As a musician, you do develop a special relationship with your instrument.\" She praises police attempts to find the violin, and thanks friends and family for helping her through \"a thoroughly dreadful experience\". Philip Scott, head of musical instruments at Bonhams auctioneers, adds: \"She will be limbless, in a way, unable to express herself musically.\" Classical music writer and critic Norman Lebrecht says that while it would be \"heartbreaking\" for a musician to lose his or her own instrument, there would be \"a terrible weight of responsibility\" in having a borrowed Strad stolen. \"But if they aren't played, they rot,\" he adds, \"which is why the investment institutions that own them lend them out.\" She made her international debut with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra at 13, and her London debut in 1995. After studying at the Royal College of Music she went on to study with her mentor, Ruggiero Ricci, in Salzburg. He described her as \"the most talented violinist I have ever worked with\" and the Evening Standard's classical music critic Barry Millington considers her \"a whizz-kid\" and \"a very promising young virtuoso\".
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Evening Standard Limited
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