The flamboyant Georgian-French pianist Khatia Buniatishvili is taking up directing concertos from the keyboard. She plays London’s Barbican in December.
‘My control is that I lose control,’ she tells an AP videographer. ‘I just give everything I have. I am proud that I achieved independently … from conductors, from male powers, or even female.’
Watch here.
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