Alexander Malofeev

Born in Moscow in 2001, Alexander Malofeev began piano training at the age of five and later studied at the Gnessin Institute and the Moscow Conservatory in his native city. At thirteen, he won First Prize and the Gold Medal at the junior division of the Tchaikovsky Competition. A year later, Riccardo Chailly heard him during a guest appearance in Milan and was struck not only by the young Russian’s technical perfection but also by the depth of his interpretations. Chailly later engaged him for concerts with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, both on tour in Shanghai and again in the summer of 2024. Further invitations have taken Malofeev to the Philadelphia and Boston Symphony Orchestras, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the London and Royal Philharmonic Orchestras, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, and the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. At the end of 2026, he will make his debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker at their renowned New Year’s Eve concert under Kirill Petrenko. Malofeev has worked with conductors including Alain Altinoglu, Myung-Whun Chung, Fabio Luisi, Susanna Mälkki, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Vasily Petrenko, Michael Tilson Thomas, and Kazuki Yamada. He has performed at the Vienna Musikverein, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Philharmonie halls in Paris and Luxembourg, Tokyo’s Bunka Kaikan, the Seoul Arts Center, and the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, as well as at Rome’s Parco della Musica and the Alte Oper Frankfurt. He has also appeared at major festivals, most recently making his Salzburg debut and previously at Verbier and La Roque d’Anthéron, the Rheingau Music Festival, and the Klavier-Festival Ruhr, as well as in Aspen, Ravinia, and Tanglewood. His debut album, Forgotten Melodies, which features Russian repertoire, was released by Sony Classical in 2026. Malofeev is especially acclaimed for his interpretations of Rachmaninoff, though his repertoire ranges from the Baroque to Gershwin. He currently lives in Berlin.

Lucerne Festival debut on 20 August 2024, when he performed as the soloist in Rachmaninoff’s First Piano Concerto with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra under Riccardo Chailly.

May 2026