Name: Lubomyr Melnyk
Start: 2025-11-19T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-11-19T23:00:00-05:00
Location: 427 Bloor Street West, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1X7, Canada

Lubomyr Melnyk is one of the truly great innovators of the piano — an explorer whose remarkable technical capacities and his poetic mastery has enthralled audiences wherever he plays ! His solo piano work is truly astounding …. when he combines this into 2 pianos, the result is purely mind-splitting!
His artistry at the piano has introduced an exciting new voice for the instrument. Continuous Music — as one critic put it “ the piano was always meant to sound this way“ ( Edward Bond of the Kingston Whig-Standard ).
The evocative beauty of his music has amazed audiences wherever he has performed. His music has been described by critics as “ the play of atoms bouncing around at supersonic speeds!“ — and indeed, Melnyk’s technique in performing these works is simply amazing! He is THE fastest pianist in the world — able to sustain speeds of over 19 notes per second in each hand simultaneously!
LUBOMYR MELNYK is one of the most innovative and fascinating pianists/composers of this century. During the 1970’s he developed a totally new language for the piano, called Continuous Music, and with it, a stupendous physical and mental technique that is totally unprecedented in the history of the piano.