[1] By the age of seven, he became interested in the music of Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Mahler, Rachmaninoff, and Prokofiev.

He continued his studies with Elena Berezkina, who has the honorary title "Honoured Cultural Worker of the Russian Federation", at the Gnessin State Musical College in Moscow, graduating in 2019.

[3] He is currently studying at the Moscow Conservatory in the class of Sergei Dorensky, People's Artist of Russia.

[5][6][9] At the opening of the International Piano Festival of Brescia and Bergamo in April 2017 in Italy, he was awarded the "Premio Giovane Talento Musicale dell'anno 2017" (Best Young Musician of 2017).

[10][11] Malofeev's scheduled performance in early March 2022 with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, to be led by conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, was cancelled in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, despite his public opposition to the war;[12] every Russian will feel guilty for decades because of the terrible and bloody decision that none of us could influence and predict as Malofeev had put it.