‘Chopin was the first trans composer’

Pianist Sara Davis Buechner lost most of her musical contacts when she transitioned male-to-female in mid-career. Condutors, presenters, old friends forgot that she existed.

But she had the talent and she dug in hard. Today, even in a hostile American atmosphere, she flourishes.

In the latest episode of Zsolt Bognar’s Living the Creative Life, she takes us on a journally, literally across the lines.

‘The world has been tormented by monstrous people,’ she says.