Erice was born in Madrid (Spain) in May 1977. He started his piano studies at the age of six with José Ramón Martínez Reyero. In 1998, he graduated with honours in both Piano and Chamber Music from the Royal Conservatory of Madrid, where he studied with Joaquín Soriano, Beata Monstavicius, and Luis Rego. In 1999, he studied in The Hague (Holland) with Rian de Waal, and obtained the Higher Vocational Diploma in Piano from the Koninklijk Conservatorium. In 2002, he obtained the Artist Diploma in Piano from Indiana University School of Music in Bloomington (USA), in the studio of the late Leonard Hokanson. In 2004, at the same institution, Erice received the degree of Master of Music in Piano under the direction of Menahem Pressler and Emile Naoumoff. In October 2003, the piano faculty at IU unanimously awarded him the coveted Performer Certificate in recognition of outstanding performance. In 2008, he obtained the Doctorate of Musical Arts degree in Piano under the direction of Christina Dahl from the State University of New York at Stony Brook (USA).

Erice has participated in festivals and master classes with artists including Alicia de Larrocha, Joaquín Achúcarro, Evgueny Moguilevsky, Aldona Dvarionaité, Jeff Cohen, Håkan Hagegård, Janos Starker, Yo-Yo Ma, Colin Carr, Miriam Fried, Edward Auer, John Wustman, Julie Kauffman, Roger Vignoles, and Norman Shetler.

He has been invited to teach master classes at the National Conservatory of Panamá, at the School of Music of Nepal University in Bakhtapur, and has held the positions of Associate Instructor of Piano at Indiana University and Teacher Assistant of Piano at Stony Brook University.

Erice has won several prizes in various prestigious Spanish competitions such as: Royale (1989), Gregorio Baudot (1994), Infanta Cristina (1994, 1996, and 1998), and Ciudad de Albacete (2006).

Since the beginning of his career, Erice has given great importance to instrumental and vocal chamber music. In the Jacinto Guerrero International Singing Competition (2000), he was awarded the prize for best collaborative pianist by unanimous jury. In 2004, he was a semifinalist in the renowned Wolf Internationaler Wettbewerb für Liedkunst in Stuttgart (Germany). In summer 2006, 2007 and 2008, he was invited by the German School at Middlebury College (VT, USA) as an artist in residence and vocal coach for the program “German for Singers and Pianists.”

Erice has recorded three CDs under the direction of Ignacio Yepes, and a fourth CD of Spanish and Latin-American art songs, sponsored by the Ministerio de Educación y Cultura of Spain. His performances have been recorded and broadcasted for the radio programs Producción Propia and Jóvenes Intérpretes (Radio Nacional de España), and for the TV programs Otros Músicos and Los Conciertos de La2 (Televisión Española).

Erice has performed extensively in Spain, making his debut as a soloist with the Symphony Orchestra of the Royal Conservatory of Madrid in 1999, and has also given recitals in the USA, Canada, Colombia, Panama, Lithuania, Germany, Luxembourg, Nepal and Italy.

He is the founder and the director of the Festival Internacional de Música Clásica de Ribadeo (Spain).