G Livelab, Puutarhakatu 1, 33100 Tampere
Katsomo: Pääosin istumakatsomo
Lubomyr Melnyk tunnetaan continuous music -tyylisuunnan pioneerina. Klassisen pianistin koulutuksen saaneen Melnykin omissa sävellyksissä on kuultavissa vaikutteita minimalismin mestareiden Steve Reichin ja Philip Glassin tyyleistä, mutta Ravi Shankar ja Terry Riley on myös mainittava. Ukrainalaisvirtuoosin mukaan hänen sävellyksissään voi kuulla myös kaikuja hänen kotimaansa kansanmusiikista.
Melnykin vapaasti virtaavaa, aaltoilevaa ja ryöppyävää hypnoottista musiikkia on kuultu aiemmin mm. G Livelabin keikoilla 2023, Temppelinaukion kirkossa 2019 ja Flow-festivaalilla 2018. Melnykin uusin albumi WINDMILLS: Fragments julkaistiin tammikuussa 2026.
Tutustu Lubomyr Melnykin tekniikkaan ja musiikkiin lyhytelokuvassa The Continuous Music Man:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qT1IxvaEQ0
KULTTUURIEDUT
Lippuja voi ostaa kaikilla kulttuurieduilla Tiketistä: www.tiketti.fi/glivelabtre
OPISKELIJALIPUT
Mikäli tapahtuma ei ole loppuunmyyty, keikalle myydään opiskelijalippuja ovelta ennen konsertin alkua hintaan 25 € / kpl. Opiskelijalippuihin vaaditaan opiskelijakortti tai muu opiskelutodistus. Konsertti on ikärajaton. Kouluikäiselle alle 18-vuotiaalle lapselle voi hankkia myös opiskelijalipun ovelta, mikäli konsertti ei ole ennakkoon loppuunmyyty. Alle kouluikäiset pääsevät keikoille maksutta.
ESTEETTÖMYYS
Tila on esteetön parvea lukuun ottamatta. Avustajat pääsevät keikoille mukaan ilmaiseksi. Voit olla yhteydessä etukäteen henkilökuntaamme, niin osaamme varata teille parhaan mahdollisen paikan: [email protected].
G LIVELAB TAMPERE - TURVALLISUUSOHJE:
www.glivelab.fi/tampere/turvallisuus
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After Lubomyr Melnyk came on the scene, the world of the piano was permanently changed! He completely revamped the nature of the instrument, and brought a whole new level of virtuosity to the stage, with music that is both engaging and forceful. His new visions for the piano introduced astounding new elements into piano playing.
Born in Ukraine in 1948, Lubomyr Melnyk fell for the piano at an early age. Given lessons as a young child after his family emigrated to Canada after the iron curtain came down, he was immediately transfixed by the possibilities of the instrument. “On the piano, you can create whole worlds,” he reflects. “I realised that it could be an orchestra, a choir of sound.”
Trained for the Classical concert halls, Lubomyr changed course while living in Paris in the early 1970-s where, bereft of income and living the life of “La Boheme” he discovered this new world of the piano. Homeless and in desperate need of money, he supported himself by accompanying dance lessons for a company run by the experimental choreographer Carolyn Carlson. The experience became a kind of epiphany: watching Carlson’s dancers, he began to play a new kind of music, spontaneous and improvisatory – responding not to rigid classical conventions but the dance he saw unfolding. Using the sustain pedal to create echo and reverb, he transformed free-flowing cascades of notes into hypnotic waves of sound.
Eventually he found a name for this new style: ‘continuous music’, which he uses to this day. His “Continuous Music” is a blend of four historic elements: Classical piano, Minimalist Drumming, Martial Arts and Transcendental Meditation. With these 4 elements, Lubomyr does what no other pianist could do, because of his extraordinary virtuosity, enabling him to create dream-like effects on the piano that no one has ever been able to do before. Melnyk composes, as he plays, at the piano, feeling out lines and individual rhythmic cells that bubble, undulate and gradually expand into vast, interlinked frameworks.
Critics have detected the influence of Ravi Shankar and other Indian styles in Melnyk’s music, along with the insistent, repetitive textures of minimalist pioneers such as Steve Reich and Philip Glass. Melnyk himself cites his debt to the American composer Terry Riley, particularly the legendary 1964 work 'In C’, which he says “opened the world for me”. But he adds that if you listen carefully, you’ll also be able to hear the lilting contours of traditional Ukrainian folk music.
It might be truer to say that there is genuinely nothing quite like Melnyk’s work: a unique
musical pioneer, he has defiantly carved his own path. His deeply personal performances have enthralled audiences all over the world and his more advanced pieces have dumbfounded the piano establishment because they are virtually unplayable.
Lubomyr’s music creates a magical aural experience for his audience, a world that takes the
beautiful “ Voice Of The Piano” and blends it with a touch of mystical dimensions, and this is
why people find his concerts to be so invigorating and valuable.
STUDENT TICKETS
If the event is not sold out, there will be student tickets available at the door for 25 € each (student tickets not sold online) before the show starts. Please show your student card when purchasing student tickets. The concert has no age limit. Children under school age can enter gigs free of charge.
G LIVELAB TAMPERE - SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS:
www.glivelab.fi/tampere/turvallisuus
Lubomyr Melnyk (UA), 25.2.2027
25.2.
Thu
19:00
Lubomyr Melnyk (UA)
Doors: 18:00
Showtime: 19:00
Katsomo: Pääosin istumakatsomo
Lubomyr Melnyk tunnetaan continuous music -tyylisuunnan pioneerina. Klassisen pianistin koulutuksen saaneen Melnykin omissa sävellyksissä on kuultavissa vaikutteita minimalismin mestareiden Steve Reichin ja Philip Glassin tyyleistä, mutta Ravi Shankar ja Terry Riley on myös mainittava. Ukrainalaisvirtuoosin mukaan hänen sävellyksissään voi kuulla myös kaikuja hänen kotimaansa kansanmusiikista.
Melnykin vapaasti virtaavaa, aaltoilevaa ja ryöppyävää hypnoottista musiikkia on kuultu aiemmin mm. G Livelabin keikoilla 2023, Temppelinaukion kirkossa 2019 ja Flow-festivaalilla 2018. Melnykin uusin albumi WINDMILLS: Fragments julkaistiin tammikuussa 2026.
Tutustu Lubomyr Melnykin tekniikkaan ja musiikkiin lyhytelokuvassa The Continuous Music Man:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qT1IxvaEQ0
KULTTUURIEDUT
Lippuja voi ostaa kaikilla kulttuurieduilla Tiketistä: www.tiketti.fi/glivelabtre
OPISKELIJALIPUT
Mikäli tapahtuma ei ole loppuunmyyty, keikalle myydään opiskelijalippuja ovelta ennen konsertin alkua hintaan 25 € / kpl. Opiskelijalippuihin vaaditaan opiskelijakortti tai muu opiskelutodistus. Konsertti on ikärajaton. Kouluikäiselle alle 18-vuotiaalle lapselle voi hankkia myös opiskelijalipun ovelta, mikäli konsertti ei ole ennakkoon loppuunmyyty. Alle kouluikäiset pääsevät keikoille maksutta.
ESTEETTÖMYYS
Tila on esteetön parvea lukuun ottamatta. Avustajat pääsevät keikoille mukaan ilmaiseksi. Voit olla yhteydessä etukäteen henkilökuntaamme, niin osaamme varata teille parhaan mahdollisen paikan: [email protected].
G LIVELAB TAMPERE - TURVALLISUUSOHJE:
www.glivelab.fi/tampere/turvallisuus
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After Lubomyr Melnyk came on the scene, the world of the piano was permanently changed! He completely revamped the nature of the instrument, and brought a whole new level of virtuosity to the stage, with music that is both engaging and forceful. His new visions for the piano introduced astounding new elements into piano playing.
Born in Ukraine in 1948, Lubomyr Melnyk fell for the piano at an early age. Given lessons as a young child after his family emigrated to Canada after the iron curtain came down, he was immediately transfixed by the possibilities of the instrument. “On the piano, you can create whole worlds,” he reflects. “I realised that it could be an orchestra, a choir of sound.”
Trained for the Classical concert halls, Lubomyr changed course while living in Paris in the early 1970-s where, bereft of income and living the life of “La Boheme” he discovered this new world of the piano. Homeless and in desperate need of money, he supported himself by accompanying dance lessons for a company run by the experimental choreographer Carolyn Carlson. The experience became a kind of epiphany: watching Carlson’s dancers, he began to play a new kind of music, spontaneous and improvisatory – responding not to rigid classical conventions but the dance he saw unfolding. Using the sustain pedal to create echo and reverb, he transformed free-flowing cascades of notes into hypnotic waves of sound.
Eventually he found a name for this new style: ‘continuous music’, which he uses to this day. His “Continuous Music” is a blend of four historic elements: Classical piano, Minimalist Drumming, Martial Arts and Transcendental Meditation. With these 4 elements, Lubomyr does what no other pianist could do, because of his extraordinary virtuosity, enabling him to create dream-like effects on the piano that no one has ever been able to do before. Melnyk composes, as he plays, at the piano, feeling out lines and individual rhythmic cells that bubble, undulate and gradually expand into vast, interlinked frameworks.
Critics have detected the influence of Ravi Shankar and other Indian styles in Melnyk’s music, along with the insistent, repetitive textures of minimalist pioneers such as Steve Reich and Philip Glass. Melnyk himself cites his debt to the American composer Terry Riley, particularly the legendary 1964 work 'In C’, which he says “opened the world for me”. But he adds that if you listen carefully, you’ll also be able to hear the lilting contours of traditional Ukrainian folk music.
It might be truer to say that there is genuinely nothing quite like Melnyk’s work: a unique
musical pioneer, he has defiantly carved his own path. His deeply personal performances have enthralled audiences all over the world and his more advanced pieces have dumbfounded the piano establishment because they are virtually unplayable.
Lubomyr’s music creates a magical aural experience for his audience, a world that takes the
beautiful “ Voice Of The Piano” and blends it with a touch of mystical dimensions, and this is
why people find his concerts to be so invigorating and valuable.
STUDENT TICKETS
If the event is not sold out, there will be student tickets available at the door for 25 € each (student tickets not sold online) before the show starts. Please show your student card when purchasing student tickets. The concert has no age limit. Children under school age can enter gigs free of charge.
G LIVELAB TAMPERE - SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS:
www.glivelab.fi/tampere/turvallisuus