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Classical guitarist Galina Vernigora Vale was born in Ukraine and comes from a family of musicians. She began studying the guitar and made her first public appearance on state television at the age of eight. Four years later she was performing major guitar concertos with the Kharkiv Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. From 1991 to 1995 she studied at the Moscow Gnesiny Music College while also employed as a principal guitarist with the Kharkiv State Philharmonia from 1986 until 1997.
Galina Vale has won prizes at international guitar and music competitions in Poland, Italy, Hungary, Spain and the United Kingdom, and has performed over 2000 concerts across Eastern and Western Europe. In 1996 the British Ambassador and High Commissioner to Kenya invited her to Africa for a concert tour and television appearances. She now lives in the UK.