- Artiom Galuza (b. 1991, Belarusian-Polish) is an author, guitarist, and music educator.
He studied at the Minsk State Music College in the guitar class of Valery Zhyvalievski, while also attending additional composition lessons with Mikhail Vasouchkov. During his studies, he was a three-time scholarship holder of the President of Belarus and a laureate of guitar competitions in Belarus, Lithuania, Poland and Russia.
He continued his guitar studies in Poland in the class of Ryszard Balauszko at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Bialystok. As part of the Erasmus programme, he studied in Vienna with Heinz Wallisch, while also studying Renaissance lute with Luciano Contini and guitar arrangement with Michael Langer.
He later completed Master’s studies in the class of Lukasz Kuropaczewski in Poznan. During this period, he was diagnosed with focal dystonia, which prevented him from continuing a concert career.
After completing his studies, he worked as a guitar teacher in Canada, Vancouver and later at music schools in Poland.
He is active as an author, arranger, and transcriber for guitar. His arrangements include works by Fryderyk Chopin, Michal Kleofas Oginski, Pancrace Royer, and Marco Dell’Aquila.
He is the author of two volumes of the pedagogical series "Guitar for Young Masters".
His compositions have been performed in Poland and abroad. Austrian guitarist Rainer Maria Nero recorded the album "Colores del Sur", dedicated to the music of Artiom Galuza and featuring works inspired by the rich musical heritage of Andalusia.