Alexander Malofeev performs Bach, Weinberg, Scriabin, and Wagner

First prize winner at the 2014 Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians and the 2016 Grand Piano Competition, Alexander Malofeev (b. 2001) has rapidly made a name for himself as one of the most talented and exciting young pianists on the scene today, stunning audiences at the likes of Tanglewood and the Verbier Festival. In Tsinandali he performs a typically unconventional program, including Samuil Feinberg's transcription of Bach's A minor Organ Sonata (itself inspired by Vivaldi), Mieczysław Weinberg's implacable Piano Sonata No. 4 in B minor, Scriabin's bewitching Prelude and Nocturne for the Left Hand (written following an overuse injury to the composer's right hand that would never fully heal), and a firework finish: Liszt's virtuosic transcription of the famed Overture from Wagner's Tannhäuser.

Photo © Liudmila Malofeeva