Elif Ömürlü Uyar was born in Istanbul and graduated from Istanbul Technical University with a degree in Management Engineering. She began her first formal music training in middle school at the Kubbealtı Music Society under her father, Yusuf Ömürlü. She later shared the musical knowledge received from her father with students at Kubbealtı. During her undergraduate years she sang with the Istanbul University Choir directed by Süheylâ Altmışdört. She benefited for many years from the fasıl gatherings hosted at the home of the ʿūd player–composer Câhit Gözkân, where eminent artists regularly took part.
She contributed to the public introduction of Classical Turkish Music and Sufi Music through her performances on the Beyaz TV program “Cemâlnur Sargut ile Aşka Yolculuk.” In 2010 she took on, as a trust from her father, the music activities at the Kubbealtı Academy Culture and Arts Foundation and directed the Kubbealtı Music Ensemble for five years. Since 2016 she has led the “Istanbul Türk Ocağı Ömürlü Music Ensemble.”
Uyar completed her MA at Üsküdar University’s Institute for Sufi Studies, with specialization in the works of Samiha Ayverdi and on Turkish music in the early Republican period. She currently conducts the “Sufism and Music” training program at the same institute. She is married and the mother of three children.
Albums: Erler Demine (2022); Yusuf Ömürlü Besteleri (2021); Gönül Bahçemden (2020); Kimi Dost’a Varır (2015); İlâhiyât-ı Ken’ân (2012).