Valentina Rusu was born on September 12, 1991 in the Republic of Moldova. She studied at the Republican Music School „Ciprian Porumbescu”, violin specialty, prof. Galina Buinovschi, after which she graduated from the Academy of Music, Theatre and Fine Arts (bachelor and master degree), class Prof. Boris Dubosarschi.

She is the winner of several national and international competitions:

• „Paul Constantinescu” – 1^st prize (2000, Ploiesti, Romania);
• „George Enescu” – 2^nd prize (2001, Tulcea, Romania);
• „Paul Constantinescu” – 2^nd prize (2001, Ploieşti, Romania);
• „Paul Constantinescu” – 2^nd prize (2003, Ploieşti, Romania);
• „Paul Constantinescu” – 2^nd prize (2005, Ploiesti, Romania);
• „Remember Enescu” – 3^rd prize (2001, Sinaia, Romania);
• „Музыка Нaдежды” – 4^th prize (2002, Gomeli, Belarus);
• „Eugene Coca” -  2^nd prize (2003, Chisinau);
• „Eugene Coca” - special prize (2005, Chisinau);
• „M.Стрихарж” - diploma (2006, Zaporozhye, Ukraine).

For remarkable successes during the studies and for successes in the field of art, she was awarded the City Hall Scholarship (2004) and the Government Scholarship (2012). Since 2010, she started her activity as an instrumentalist in Folk Music Orchestra „Folclor”, and since 2017, she has been instrumentalist soloist.