Erika Kesuma is a choral conductor and piano teacher. She has been assisting in school choirs since she was 17, and has over a decade of teaching experience. She has led school choirs in Zhonghua Primary School and Anderson Secondary School, and pioneered a home-school choir group, Voices in The Rain (VOIR), which had its first showcase in June 2023.

Erika specialises in working with young children and adopts Kodály teaching methods which she learnt under the Kodály Institute of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Hungary.

Under the mentorship of Mr Terrence Toh, Erika has had solo performances at venues such as the Esplanade Concert Hall, with her first solo at the age of 15 during the biennial Singapore Youth Festival (SYF) Competition. She was a student conductor at CHIJ Katong Convent and Nanyang Junior College choir and had also conducted at Nanyang Junior College Alumni Choir’s concert at the Victoria Concert Hall.

Erika believes that every child should enjoy what they learn and that they each can learn music and rhythm even at a young age. Her lessons center around values such as teamwork and respect and believes that the classroom is where students’ character grows and have their values shaped. She’s a firm believer in giving young people opportunities.

With a breadth of experience in media and theatre performance, Erika has written both songs and scripts for the stage and the screen. She has won several competitions for her creative work at Nanyang Technological University as a Communications undergraduate. She furthered her technical understanding of music recording in LASALLE in 2019. Her compositions and works span a wide range of genres. In 2016, She appeared on Indonesian National Television in her debut musical theatre performance and written works. In 2022, she wrote two original scripts for the Singapore Lyric Opera’s (SLO) Children and Youth Chorus for their first musical-theatre production– Sunshine Through The Rain and three sell-out shows Quack Quack Moo. Her creative writing workshops also led her students at Zhonghua Primary School to be shortlisted in the SYF Youth Station songwriting project.

She is currently a choral conductor at Geylang Methodist School (Primary), and Singapore Lyric Opera’s Children’s Chorus, as well as an assistant conductor at CHIJ Katong Convent.