ErinaYashima
- Conductor


About Erina
German-born conductor Erina Yashima was the First Kapellmeister at the Komische Oper Berlin from 2022 to 2024 and has conducted many renowned ensembles, orchestras and opera companies worldwide.
In the 2025/26 season, Erina will make her debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Mainz and Omaha Symphony Orchestra. She will also return to the Orchestra della Toscana and Civic Orchestra of Chicago. On the opera stage, Yashima will make her debut at the Metropolitan Opera with The Magic Flute and return to Opera Australia with Madame Butterfly, following a highly acclaimed debut in August 2025.
Recent highlights include performances with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, Münchner Symphoniker, Tonkünstler-Orchester, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Houston Symphony, Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal, Seoul Philharmonic, and at the Salzburg Festival, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Washington National Opera, English National Opera, Irish National Opera, Bregenz Festival, Arena di Verona and Teatro Verdi di Pisa.
Representation
Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt
Season Highlights
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News
Press
Bloch and Dvorak with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
Elbphilharmonie HamburgJan 2023Antonín Dvořák's wonderfully refreshing Symphony No. 5 op. In 76, Erina Yashima created a tremendous liveliness and gave free rein to the joy of playing of her NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra.
- Hamburger Abendblatt
- 20 January 2023
Philadelphia Orchestra on its opening night at SPAC in Saratoga Springs, July 28 2022
Saratoga Performing Arts CenterJul 2022Yashima is a firebrand on the podium. Her conducting style is precise with a taut clear beat and a forceful energy that electrifies not only the musicians but the audience. She’s totally focused and utterly joyous in what’s she’s doing and getting superb results. Even in the traditional opening of the “Star Spangeled Banner” in which many in the audience sang, the music sounded almost as if we’d never heard it before." "The program opened with Shostakovich’s “Festive Overture” (1954) with its big brassy introduction that leads to colorful and fast melodies before returning to its thrilling conclusion. The orchestra sounded fabulous and with Yashima’s propulsive tempos, the music jumped off the page. A friend said after the cheers, standing ovation and loud clapping that he’d follow Yashima anywhere.
- The Daily Gazette
- 28 July 2022
Washington National Opera’s ‘Così fan tutte’ at the Kennedy Center, March 2022
Kennedy CenterMar 2022Led by conductor Erina Yashima, the WNO Orchestra performed with ramped-up vigor, riding Mozart’s melodic updrafts (the ones that counter the story’s downward spiral) and contributing some of the evening’s best comic timing.
- The Washington Post
- 13 March 2022