Born in 1974 in Kagoshima, Ebihara started his professional musical training in 1993 at the Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music, where he studied musicology and orchestral conducting.

After graduation, he took masterclasses with the Vienna Mastercourse in Austria with Julius Kalmar and the International Bartok Seminar in Hungary with Zoltan Pesko.

Later he continued his studies at the Hungarian State Opera with Janos Kovacs.

Returning to Japan in 2004, Ebihara served as assistant conductor of the Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra, working with such notable conductors as Taijiro Iimori, Hikotaro Yazaki, Josep Pons.

Hikaru Ebihara has got the 3rd Prize at the 4th Matacic International Competition Young Conductors in 2007, and the 6th prize at the 15th Malko International Conducting Competition in 2009, attracting the world's attention.

He has been invited to conduct many of Japan's leading professional symphony orchestras, including Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra and Japan Philharmonic Orchestra.