Magnificent Malofeev

At Hahn Hall at the Music Academy of the West was brimming for another UCSB Arts & Lectures concert when international Russian pianist Alexander Malofeev showed off his tremendous keyboard talent with works by Schubert, Kabalevsky, Janáček, Liszt, and Scriabin.

Now Berlin-based, Malofeev came to international prominence in 2014 when he won the International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians at age 13.

Last year he premiered with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, as well as playing with the San Diego Symphony, the Philharmonie Berlin, and is scheduled to play in due course with the Stavanger and Jerusalem symphony orchestras, and Stuttgarter Philharmoniker.