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Nadia Boríslova (1969-),  “Arbatski Vals”.
Published by Editions Orphée.
6  Pages.

Guitarist and composer Nadia Boríslova was born in Moscow in 1969. ‎ She studied guitar and orchestral direction of Russian folk instruments at the 48th ‎Musical School of Moscow and at the Gnesin State School of Moscow.  Since 1988 she has been engaged in an intense concert activity,  and has performed ‎concerts in Russia,  France,  Hungary,  U.S.A,  Costa Rica,  Cuba,  ‎Paraguay,  Morocco,  and Mexico.  As a composer,  her compositions have been published in Russia, ‎ Mexico,  Italy,  Sweden,  Spain and Canada.  She has written several compositions on commission of the Centro ‎Hispanoamericano de Guitarra of Tijuana,  Baja California.  ‎Since 1999, she has been the Artistic Director of the International Guitar Festival of ‎Puebla.  In 2005,  in the IV Guitar Festival,  she integrated and directed the Orchestra of ‎‎80 musicians from different States of Mexico and seven well-known women guitarists ‎from different countries,  in order to commemorate the International Day of Woman. ‎ Since 1994,  Nadia Boríslova is a professor at the School of Arts of the Universidad ‎Autónoma de Puebla in Mexico. ‎

Front cover painting is a fragment from a picture of the Spasopeskovskaya Square by Aleksandr Brusilov.  The square is a well known Moscow location along the famous Arbat’ street,  the place that inspired the present composition.