Alexander Malofeev

The Russian pianist Alexander Malofeev’s virtuosity and exceptional musical maturity make him one of the most outstanding artists of his generation. He came to international attention when at the age of 13 he won First Prize at the prestigious Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians.

Since then, he has performed as a soloist with numerous renowned orchestras worldwide, including the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Baltic Sea Philharmonic. He has also performed at La Folle Journée de Nantes, the Celebrity Series of Boston, the Rheingau Music Festival, the Piano Festivals of Brescia and Bergamo and at festivals including those of Verbier, Tanglewood, La Roque d’Anthéron and Salzburg.

Highlights of the 2025/26 season have included concerts with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Karina Canellakis at the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra under Petr Popelka at the Berlin Philharmonie and with the violinist María Dueñas at the Vienna Konzerthaus. In June 2025 he performed in the concert ‘Harmonies of Hope’ in the Vatican, at the invitation of Pope Leo XIV.

His interpretations of Russian composers such as Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky are especially impressive. He has performed at prestigious concert halls such as Carnegie Hall, New York, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Vienna Musikverein, the Philharmonie de Paris, the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan and the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing. He works regularly with leading conductors such as Alain Altinoglu, Riccardo Chailly, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Kirill Karabits, Susanna Mälkki, Fabio Luisi, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Alondra de la Parra, Vasily Petrenko and Mikhail Pletnev.

Alexander Malofeev is an exclusive artist with the label Sony Classical, with which he released his first solo album, Forgotten Melodies, in February 2026. He was born in Moscow in 2001, studied at the Gnessin School of Music and at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, and since 2022 has lived in Berlin.