Erika began studying piano at the age of four and violin at eight. While performing as a violinist in her school orchestra, she developed a deep fascination for conducting and decided to pursue it professionally. She studied Conducting at Tokyo College of Music, where she earned both her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees. She studied under Junichi Hirokami, Yasuhiko Shiozawa and Tatsuya Shimono, and she was selected as an outstanding participant in a masterclass led by Michiyoshi Inoue.

From 2017 to 2019, she served as Assistant Conductor to Paavo Järvi with the NHK Symphony Orchestra.

In 2019, Erika was a semi-finalist at the 10th International Conducting Competition Jeunesses Musicales Bucharest. In 2022, she won Third Prize, the Audience Prize and the Orchestra Prize at the Hiroshima International Conductors Competition.

In 2025, following her acclaimed performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, she was invited to conduct by leading Japanese orchestras, including the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Japan Philharmonic, Kanagawa Philharmonic, Osaka Philharmonic, Japan Century Symphony, Kyoto Symphony, and Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa.

Erika has served as Assistant Conductor for numerous opera productions, including the Japanese première of Golijov’s Ainadamar, Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte and Die Zauberflöte, Puccini’s La bohème, Madama Butterfly and Turandot, Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Beethoven’s Fidelio, Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier, Dai Fujikura’s The Dream of Armageddon and Matsui Kazuhiko’s Naita Akaoni.