Being declared legally blind was the driving force that led Christina Ebersohl-Van Scyoc on a path to perform viola at the world-renowned Carnegie Hall in New York City. The path to the concert is surely unique. If it not for music, she wouldn’t have gotten out of bed following her diagnosis.
“I’m still waiting for someone to pinch me and wake me up,” she tells Inside Edition Digital over Zoom from her Colorado Springs, Colorado, home.
When Christina was 3 years old, she had eye surgery due a condition where the muscles in her eyes didn’t form right because she was born prematurely. Corrective surgery helped them stay straight. “I always had really bad eyesight. It was me and my oldest sister. We always had strabismus, and we always had just glasses, and it was just something we grew up with,” she says, adding “But I never imagined not being able to see the world.”
She started piano lessons at 7 years old and was in band and choir throughout high school. Christina played 13 instruments.