Lubomyr Melnyk Tickets

Melnyk has spent 40 years developing a style he calls ‘continuous music’. He is the fastest pianist in the world – Guinness Book of Records verified. He can play nearly 20 notes per second, a near-overwhelming but perfectly controlled roll that blurs into a gorgeously cohesive whole. Combining the soaring density of post-rock and the virtuosic delicacy of minimalist piano, the result is a meditative, mind-bending cloud of abstract sound - with clear emotions and images appearing out of the pointillist flurry, like the figures on a just-out-of-tune TV.

After a monkish existence on the streets of 1970s Paris, through decades of obscurity in the cracks between classical and avant-garde, to the current revival and rediscovery off the back of a record deal with Erased Tapes (where his labelmates include Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm), Melnyk is finally playing stunning shows to breathless audiences in soaring, sold-out spaces. There is no other performer quite like him.