Alexei Sultanov

Aleksey Sultanov (August 7, 1969, Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, USSR - June 30, 2005, Fort Worth, USA) - Russian and American pianist (US citizenship since 2004). Aleksey Sultanov was born in the family of famous musicians Fayzulhak Abdulhakovich Sultanov and Natalya Mikhailovna Pogorelova. The grandson of the famous Uzbek actress Zamira Khidoyatova. There is a younger brother Sergey. From the age of four, Sultanov studied at the Republican School of Music with a teacher Tamara Popovich. For the first time, Aleksey entered the stage at the age of 7, performing with Mozart's Concert No. 28 with the orchestra. Concerted from the age of 8. At 15, he became a laureate of the Komsomol Prize of Uzbekistan. He entered the Moscow Conservatory in the class of Lev Naumov. In 1986, at the VIII International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, 16-year-old Alexei Sultanov was the favorite of the competition. An hour before the draw during the game, Aleksey dropped the piano lid on his hand - the doctor noted