Alexei Sultanov
Alexei Sultanov ( Russian Алексей Файзуллаевич Султанов ; born August 7, 1969 in Tashkent ; † June 30, 2005 in Fort Worth , Texas ) was a pianist born in the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic who later took on US citizenship .
Life
Sultanov's parents Faisal Sultanow and Natalia Pogorelowa were both music teachers, the father a cellist, the mother a violinist. Sultanov received his first piano lessons from Tamara Popowitsch in Tashkent. Soon after, he was also receiving regular lessons at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow .
In 1986 he was admitted to the Moscow Central Music School , where he studied with Lev Naumov , where he also finished his studies at the Moscow Conservatory. His first participation in the Tchaikovsky Competition in 1986 ended with a broken finger that he had contracted from a falling lid on a practice piano. In 1989 he took part in the Van Cliburn competition , which he won. He was then invited to various TV shows such as The Today Show , The Tonight Show and Late Night with David Letterman , he also played with Vladimir Horowitz in his New York apartment and began a concert tour with 200 concerts that lasted until 1993. He got a record deal with Teldec . At the 1995 Chopin Competition in Warsaw , he had to share second place, but was still considered the winner because no Grand Prize was awarded. In 1996 he suffered a minor stroke . In 1998 he again took part in the Tchaikovsky competition, but was eliminated in the second round after particularly high ratings of some jurors were neutralized by particularly low other jurors.
In 2001 he crashed his head into a sink and suffered a cerebral haemorrhage . After that, his health was severely restricted and after a long recovery he could only play the piano with the right hand. In 2004 he received US citizenship. He died in 2005.
He was married to the Latvian cellist Dace Abele since 1991 . According to an anecdote, he met them when they tried in 1986 to gain entry to a Horowitz concert at the Moscow Conservatory via the roof of the neighboring house.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sultanov, Alexei |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Султанов, Алексей (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Uzbek pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 7th August 1969 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tashkent |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 30, 2005 |
| Place of death | Fort Worth , Texas |