Hikaru Ebihara is the winner of the 3rd prize at the Lovro von Matacic Conducting Competition in 2007 and the 6th prize at the Malko Competition in 2009. He also won jury’s special prize at the International Competition for Orchestra Conductors “Antonio Pedrotti” in 2010.

He is Associate Conductor of Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra from 2010.In March 2009, Ebihara made debut with Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra conducting Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3. His performance was described “unforced, and his Beethoven was really refreshing, fresh, and elegant suitable to this young maestro” (Ongaku Gendai).

Hikaru Ebihara was born in Kagoshima, Japan in 1974. He graduated from Kagoshima La Salle junior high school and high school, and Tokyo University of the Arts, where he also completed graduate course. He continued his studies in Vienna and Hungary. From 2004 to 2006, he was an apprentice conductor of Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra and was under the tutelage of Taijiro Iimori and Hikotaro Yazaki.

He studied conducting with Ken-ichiro Kobayashi, Masamitsu Takashina, Kovacs Janos, Julius Kalmer, and Pesko Zoltan.

Ebihara has conducted Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra, Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra, Gunma Symphony Orchestra, Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra, Osaka Symphony Orchestra, Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra, Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra, Kyushu Symphony Orchestra and others.
　His first guest apperance with HRT Symphony Orchestra(Croatia Radio Symphony Orchestra) is planned in April 2012.