Mildly annoying evening last night, as I watched the ecstatic tweets coming in from the Lubomyr Melnyk show at Café Oto, unable to be there myself. Comfort came from the Ukrainian pianist’s new album, ...

The music world does not lack fine pianists working in any genre, but those who can sustain listener interest through an extended solo set have always been in shorter supply. One such artist who has ...

Lubomyr Melnyk returns to share his unique continuous music with Oxford, for two concerts in The New Space, New College, on February the 23rd and 24th (8pm) - once again as a guest of the Balliol ...

Ukrainian composer and fastest pianist in the world, Lubomyr Melnyk is releasing a new album called Rivers and Streams. It will be made available on vinyl, CD and digitally through Erased Tapes on ...

For Lubomyr Melnyk, his music is rooted in Ukraine. On March 31, Ukrainian-Canadian pianist and composer Lubomyr Melnyk performed a solo concert to a full house at Pioneer Works in New York.

Lubomyr Melnyk is one of the world’s fastest yet little-known pianists and, since his 2013 album Corollaries finally opened him up to a new audience, the fact that he can play up to 19.5 notes per ...

The world’s first – and possibly last – ‘continuous’ pianist has finally found the wider audience for his transcendental, frighteningly quick performances It was in Tokyo that I first encountered ...

It’s May in Brighton and all across the city new musical blood is hungering, hair slick and jeans tight as amplifiers hum and sweat cascades from the low ceilings above whilst 15,000 people hunt ...

Melnyk’s precise music – what he calls “continuous music” – bears some relation to a few minimalist pianists: Charlemagne Palestine comes to mind. But Melnyk’s playing ranges so widely across the ...

Having wallowed in obscurity for much of his first 60 years, it’s only since joining Erased Tapes that Lubomyr Melnyk has stepped into the spotlight. His second album on the label further explores the ...

Lubomyr Melnyk has devised his own technique of the "continuous piano" which, according to his website, allows him to play "the most number of notes in one hour," making him the "fastest pianist in ...