Giedre Dirvanauskaite attended master classes by M.Rostropovich, D.Geringas, H.Beyerle, T.Grindenko. She is a laureate of several national competitions. As a soloist she has performed with diuerent chamber and symphony orchestras of Europe, Asia, and Middle East, and has attended many festivals like Lockenhaus, Gstaad, Basel, Beppu, Moscow (“December Evenings”). The musician has premiered works of V.Kissin, G.Kancheli, A.Maskats, V.Poleva. She has also extensively toured with many diueret chamber music formations. Her stage partners include artists like V.Afanassiev, M.Argerich and Y.Bashmet. Since 2009, she regularly performs in a trio with G.Kremer and Kh.Buniatishvili; the trio’s record of trios by Kissin and Tchaikovsky won the German Critics Award. For the album with Weinberg’s String trio Dirvanauskaite was nominated for the Grammy Award 2015. She remains to be the leader of the cello group of the Kremerata Baltica Orchestra, which she is a member since 1997.