Alexei Sultanov (Russian: Алексей Султанов; August 7, 1969 – June 30, 2005) was a Soviet and American (since 2004) classical pianist of Uzbek origin.
Alexei Sultanov was born to a family of musicians, his father a cellist, his mother a violinist, both music teachers.
At the age of 6, he began piano lessons in Tashkent with Tamara Popovich[1] and then with Lev Naumov at the Moscow Conservatory.
After winning the Van Cliburn, he made appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and Late Night with David Letterman.
Kramer checked on him and discovered some small black spots which proved to him that blood clots had formed in the brain.