{"id":18557,"date":"2019-07-14T23:02:02","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T15:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/?p=18557"},"modified":"2021-10-25T09:09:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T01:09:52","slug":"alexander-malofeev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/?p=18557","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Malofeev"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I must confess that until a few weeks ago, I had never heard about this young Russian pianist. I am interested in classical (piano) music, see for example my post about the 17th Chopin Piano Competition<\/a> . This year, from 4 until 21 May, an international music competition was held in Beijing. This China International Music Competition (CIMC<\/a>) was devoted to the piano.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The CIMC concert with the three finalists, and the presentation of the prizes can be viewed here<\/a>. Malofeev got the second prize and not everybody was happy with the verdict of the jury. Have a look at the comments given. Here are a few: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Malofeev should have won. end of story<\/em>. ” , “Malofeev is FAR ABOVE the rest. Politics again; what a shame! <\/em>“, “Unforgivable result – a travesty of justice.<\/em>“, ”
Alexander was obviously the best, is it Russophobia again<\/em>? “<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I got intrigued by Malofeev and searched for information and YouTube recordings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was born in Moscow on 21 October 2001 amd began studying the piano at the age of five. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The earliest recording I have found, is from May 2013, when he was eleven years old. He is playing Grieg’s piano concerto in A minor, the audio quality is not that good, but you should watch at least the beginning, how he is greeting the orchestra twice and struggling to adjust the piano stool!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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