Indrė Petrauskaitė
Indrė Petrauskaitė started to study piano at a very early age with her mother piano teacher Lilija Petrauskienė. Indrė later 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, Indrė together with the violinist, 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 Esther Yellin, Igor Lazko, Barbara Hesse-Bukowska, Aleksandra Žvirblytė, 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, 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. Indrė has also performed in the Santander Festival (Spain), the Oxford Lieder Festival (UK) and the Pažaislis Festival (Lithuania). Some of her performances in Vilnius were broadcast on Lithuanian Radio. Since 2000 she has collaborated regularly with Vilnius String Quartet and Kaunas String Quartet. In 2018, Toccata Classics published Indrė’s recording of Ravel’s solo piano music, with the emphasis on something new; a 40-minute concert suite for solo piano of ballet Daphnis et Chloé arranged by pianist herself, while carefully observing Ravel’s original textures. This CD represents some core Ravel’s piano repertoire too. In 2021, AVIE records published pianist’s recording of Mozart’s solo piano works written in the minor keys. Indrė is now based in London, where she combines teaching with performing.
