Galina Vale has won numerous prizes at international music competitions in Poland, Italy, Hungary, Spain, the United Kingdom, and has performed over 2000 concerts across West and Eastern Europe. In 1996 the British Ambassador and High Commissioner to Kenya invited her to Africa for a concert tour and television appearances. Her repertoire has ranged from 'orthodox' classical guitar (Sor, Villa-Lobos, Bach) through arrangements of classical instrumental, orchestral works and opera (Liszt, Paganini, Dvorak, de Falla, Rossini), the modern guitar (Walton, Rodrigo, Dyens), to flamenco (Escudero, Sabicas, Pena) and arrangements of South American and East European folk music (Cardoso, Ramirez, Shevchenko).

Galina Vale was born in the Ukraine and comes from a family of musicians. She began studying the guitar and made her first public performance at the age of eight. Four years later she was performing guitar concertos with the Kharkov Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. From 1985 to 1991 she studied at the Moscow Gnesiny Music College while also employed as principal guitarist with the Kharkov State Philharmonia from 1986 until 1997. She has also starred in three music films produced by Ukrainian State Television; Portrait with Guitar (1987), Strings and Sails (1991), Spirit of Spain (1997). Her first CD The Legend received funding from the Gendai Guitar Foundation of Japan and was released in 1996 (under her maiden name Galina Vernigora). It featured on US FM radio in the network programme edition of Great Women Guitarists produced by 'Classical Guitar Alive!' in 1997 and later with Maltese National Radio on the programme Cantabile.