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Valeria Dmitrievna Galimova is a Russian classical guitarist born on 7 July 1994 in Kamensk-Uralsky. She began guitar lessons at age eight with Dmitry Milovanov, and at seventeen entered the Gnessin State Musical College in Moscow to study with Roman Zorkin and Anastasia Bardina, later graduating from the Russian Academy of Gnessin under Professor Artyom Dervoed. At fourteen she was already invited to perform and serve on the jury of an international festival in Puebla, Mexico. She has continued her studies in Germany, including a concert exam at the Hochschule für Musik Dresden and postgraduate study at the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music with Prof. Thomas Fellow.
Galimova has won ten first prizes at Russian and international competitions and received a Prize of the President of Russia along with a gold medal at the 2014 Delphic Games. She performed a solo recital at the Guitar Virtuosi festival in the Chamber Hall of the Moscow Philharmonic and has collaborated with musicians across harpsichord, bayan, cello, violin, and voice. She is a scholar of the International Guitar Festival Rust and continues to build an international career blending solo recitals with chamber collaborations.
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