The contemporary style composer and guitarist Nadia Boríslova is born in Moscow in 1969. Following her professional studies at the 48th Musical Moscow School and at the Gnesin State School of Moscow, she becomes member of the Rosconcert Russian Philarmonic Society of Concert as a guitarist in 1988 and plays the main guitar player in the "Moment" Theater of Moscow from 1987 to 1989. From 1988 to 2003, she has played in Europe and also in USA, Mexico, Cuba, and Costa Rica. She has been living in Puebla Mexico since 1992, where she works at the Music College of BUAP (Arts-School of Puebla University). She founds a guitar ensemble where she is the Director (1992); the "Marfil-Quartet" (1998) which she conducts for their first CD, and the "Impromptu-Quartet" (2001). Nadia Boríslova has played as a soloist in Morelia X International Guitar Festival (2000) and Puebla III National Guitar Festival (2003) and in Cuba I International Guitar Festival Gardens of a King (2003). She is the artistic director of the National Guitar Festival in Puebla, Mexico. In 1995, she records her first CD playing her own compositions. Two new CDs in 1999 feature Mexican and Russian compositions, and her own. In 2001, she celebrates Mauro Giuliani's 220th birthday with two CDs. Nadia Boríslova's career is brimful with prizes and grants: the National Award of the 2nd Guitar Competition in Xalapa Veracruz University, the special prize for the best Mexican music interpretation and a special mention delivered by the composer Ramon Noble for the best "Passacaille in D minor" interpretation (1996); the FONCA-PUEBLA grant in composition for young creators (1997); the National FONCA (National Fund for Cultural Art's) grant for the best guitar player (1998 and 2000); the recognition for her Artistic Merit given by the International Festival of the Arts Navachiste (2000) and, in 2003, the First National Award in Composition for her work for guitar "Under the influence of poetry", in the First National Guitar Competition "Without borders" in Chihuahua, Mexico. Nadia Boríslova's works are published in Russia, Italy, Sweden, Mexico, Spain and Quebec.
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