Min-Jin Kym

The Korean-born English violinist Min Kym has made headlines twice: first in 2010, when her Stradivarius violin was stolen from her during a stop at a London fast food restaurant, and again in 2017, when she released Gone, a memoir recalling not only that event, but her career before and after it. Kym was born in South Korea in 1978, but moved with her family to London at age three. She took up the violin three years later and instantly showed major talent, winning acceptance at the Purcell School of Music as the youngest student ever to attend the school; at 11 she appeared...