“Richard Lin was sleeping when … the small bus he was riding in hit a truck on a highway in China” in May 2017, writes Domenica Bongiovanni in Friday’s (10/18) Indianapolis Star. “The solo violinist was in the midst of a tour in which he was to perform 23 concerts in as many cities in 31 days…. It happened just more than a year before Lin would win the gold medal at the 2018 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis—one of the most prestigious contests of its kind—and more than two years before he would return to perform concerts Friday and Saturday with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. He couldn’t move…. He’d suffered from spinal shock, which happens when someone experiences reduced or a loss of reflexes after a spinal cord injury…. Time is the only thing that can solve this problem, doctors told him… The next September, the violinist sailed through the rounds of the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis…. ‘I was not actually competing,’ Lin said. ‘I was just trying to play my favorite repertoire and show my personal style.’ … In June 2020, he’ll make his solo debut in New York’s Carnegie Hall.”
Posted October 22, 2019
