Hello
My name is Eri and I would love to serve you as an experienced guide on your piano journey! I have 20 years of piano teaching experience at my private studio in East Bay, and I am excited to start delivering my piano lessons to your family with the comfort of your home in San Francisco this spring!
My greatest joy is bringing the inner pianist out of each of my students.
Let me help your child unleash his/her inner pianist!
My Story
Eri started her private piano studio in 2005 and has maintained a busy studio in Concord/Walnut Creek area.
She is also a very active piano performer. In 2009, she was invited to audition to become one of about twenty five members which consist mostly of D.M.A.s and M.M.s at Berkeley Piano Club where she has been performing regularly as one of their performing members since then.
Eri began studying piano at age 3 in Japan, acquired perfect pitch at an early age, and thrived in piano performance and enjoyed it greatly. However, she left her childhood piano study at age 12 and did not resume her piano study until after emigrating to the U.S. and starting a family. After resuming her piano study in 2002 at Diablo Valley College, she very quickly developed as a pianist through working with many wonderful pianists and ensemble partners in the Bay Area, and taking lessons with wonderful teachers. Among all the teachers, her main teacher has always been Dr. Dale Tsang for the past two decades. In 2007 she studied with John McCarthy at the SF Conservatory to prepare for a performance of the Saint-Saëns G minor concerto with the DVC Philharmonic. In 2008, she performed Saint-Saëns “Les Carnival des Animaux” with Contra Costa Chamber Orchestra at Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek.
Her extremely unique path of piano study has given her strong empathy for each piano student's struggles, keen insight in finding their individual challenges, and creativity in finding ways to overcome them. Through her 20 years of piano teaching, she has become a firm believer of personalized approach, and she finds joy in bringing the musical, creative, and curious soul out of each student. She aims to serve as an experienced tour guide and a compassionate cheerleader for each of her piano student’s piano journey. She enjoys her piano journey so much; she wants to share the joy of her journey with her students.
Eri is also a mother of two grown sons aged 23 and 20. Now that she is done being a mother of minor children, she has started her graduate study in piano performance at San Francisco State University in fall 2023 under Dr. Victoria Neve’s tutelage. She is scheduled to graduate with M.M. (Master of Music) degree with emphasis in piano performance in December 2025 or May 2026. (Her B.A. is in Policy Management from Keio University 慶應義塾大学総合政策学部 in Japan, not in music, and therefore, she will need one or two additional semesters to finally obtain her master's degree in piano performance.)
