The pianist Indrė Petrauskaitė studied at Kaunas (Lithuania) J. Naujalis high school (Art Gymnasium) with Birutė Kumpikienė. While still at school, she gave solo and chamber music recitals and performed with the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, and in 1993, she won third prize at the Stasys Vainiūnas International Piano Competition (Lithuania). In 1994, together with violinist Vilhelmas Čepinskis, Indrė won first prize in the national chamber music competition.
In 1995, Indrė entered the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre where she studied with Prof. Veronika Vitaitė. During her studies she participated in many international piano competitions with success, including second prize in Senigalia International Piano Competition (Italy), third prize in Liudmila-Knezkova Hussey International Piano Competition (Canada), Grand Prix at ’Alternativa’ (Latvia), and third prize at the International M.K.Čiurlionis Piano and Organ Competition (Lithuania).
Indrė finished her graduate and postgraduate studies at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and obtained her BMus and Mmus degrees. In 2000, she entered the Royal Academy of Music in London, where she studied with Prof. Christopher Elton, Petras Geniušas and Alexander Satz. Indrė completed her Postgraduate Diploma and Master of Music degree with a DipRAM. During her studies the pianist participated in master classes of such musicians as Peter Frankl, Michael Roll, John O’Conor, Ferenc Rados, Robert Levin, Boris Berman, Emanuel Krasovsky, Leif Ove Andsnes and Paul Lewis.
Indrė has performed with the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Lithuanian State Symphony, Lithuanian Chamber orchestra, Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart Academy Youth Orchestra, London Soloists Orchestra, Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra and Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra under the baton of conductors including Juozas Domarkas, Saulius Sondeckis, Gintaras Rinkevičius, Modestas Pitrėnas, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Helmuth Rilling, Pier Carlo Orizio and others. She has given many solo and chamber music recitals in St. Martin in the Fields, London. Indrė has also performed in the Santander Festival (Spain), the Oxford Lieder Festival (UK) and the Pažaislis Festival (Lithuania). Since 2000 she has collaborated regularly with the Vilnius String Quartet. In 2018, Indrė’s album of Ravel’s piano music including her arrangement of ballet Daphnis et Chloé was released by British record label Toccata Classics. Indrė is now based in London, where she combines teaching with performing.