Giedre Dirvanauskaite was born in Kaunas, in a family of musicians. In 1995, she graduated from the M.K.Ciurlionis Art Gymnasium where she studied cello with Romanas Armonas and entered the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre to study with Prof. S. Sondeckiene. She is the laureate of several competitions; she has attended master classes held by M. Rostropovich, D. Geringas, G. Kremer, V. Hagen, H. Bayerle, T. Grindenko, B. Garlicki and others.
She has participated in music festivals in Lithuania and abroad: the cycle Vilnius Quartet and Young Talents organized by Vilnius Quartet, youth festival Atzalynas, the international music festival Sugrizimai and chamber music festival in Gstadt (Switzerland); every year she participates in Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival (Austria) organized by Gidon Kremer.
As a soloist she has performed with the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, Kremerata Baltica orchestra, with the conductors Esa-Pekka Salonen, Juozas Domarkas, Saulius Sondeckis and Robertas Servenikas.
In January 2005, Giedre Dirvanauskaite played solo with the Kremerata Baltica orchestra at the international music fair MIDEM in Cannes (France). She has been willingly participating in various chamber music projects, giving concerts in Lithuania and abroad.
Since 1997, she is a member of the chamber orchestra Kremerata Baltica. In 2004, on the advice of the leader of this orchestra, Gidon Kremer, she founded the string quartet Kremeratini with her colleagues Dzeraldas Bidva, Marija Nemanyte and Ula Zebriunaite, which has already given concerts in USA, Latvia and Austria.
In 2005, she was awarded by the Mayor of Vilnius, Arturas Zuokas, for the glorification of Vilnius and Lithuania in the world.