20:00, on stage 20:30
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The prophet of the piano enters the void.
Few artists collapse time and space like Lubomyr Melnyk. His music doesn’t unfold—it floods, shimmers, consumes.
Known as the inventor of Continuous Music, Melnyk reimagined what the piano could be: not a percussive instrument, but a river of resonance, flowing endlessly through the hands of a player possessed. With speeds reaching over 19.5 notes per second per hand, his fingers become a blur—too fast to see, too intricate to follow. Some describe it as electronic. Others, divine.
This is not normal piano playing. This is a hallucinatory sound-world, carved entirely from human touch.
In the darkness of the Black Box, his music takes on its truest form: immersive, devotional, hypnotic. Melnyk’s performances blur the line between concert and communion, drawing from advanced classical technique, martial arts philosophy, and a lifetime of spiritual practice. He channels rather than performs. His most ambitious pieces remain unplayable by any other pianist alive. Even the piano establishment stands in awe.
Audience reactions verge on the ecstatic:
“He is not human.”
“I’ve never been so in love with the piano.”
“He must be hiding more hands than we can see.”
Melnyk’s discography spans underground cult releases to major classical labels like SONY and Erased Tapes. His seminal album The Song of Galadriel was named one of the 10 most important records of its time by Stereo Review. But it’s in the live space—this space—where his work truly comes alive: vibrating walls, hypnotized crowds, time suspended.
This is the Joy of the Piano. And you don’t listen to it. You surrender.
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