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Galina was born in the 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 guitar concertos with the Kharkov Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. From to she studied at the Moscow Gnesiny Music College while also employed as principal guitarist with the Kharkov State Philharmonia from until
Galina has won prizes at international music competitions in Poland, Italy, Hungary, Spain, the United Kingdom, and has performed over 2, concerts across West and Eastern Europe. In the British Ambassador and High Commissioner to Kenya invited her to Africa for a concert tour and television appearances.
Her recitals have included very technically demanding works, such as the arrangement by Japanese virtuoso guitarist Kazuhito Yamashita of The Bogatyr Gate of Kiev (from Pictures at an Exhibition by Mussorgsky), considered "impossible for guitar" (