Sefika Kutluer has studied at Ankara State Conservatory and graduated with honors and awards in 1979. 

She won the 3rd prize and next year the 1st prize in »International Flute Contest« in Vienna. She received the 2000 Inter-Lyra prize from the Hungarian Foundation for Performing Arts.

Sefika Kutluer has a large repertoire extending from the Baroque period to the Romantic period and from mystical music to cross-over works from the East and West and has released 17 albums recorded with orchestra, piano and guitar accompaniment, including recordings with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and the British Royal Philharmonic orchestra. 

She collaborated with numerous conductors and orchestras including Zubin Mehta, Sir Charles Mackerras, Peter Breiner, the British Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, the European Union Chamber Orchestra, Festival Strings Lucerne and St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra.

After winning several international competitions and launching her truly international career as a soloist, she was awarded the presidential Medal in Turkey in 1985, the highest honor that country bestows on an individual, and in 1998 she became a »State Artist«. She has been decorated with »Cavaliere dell’Ordine della Stella della Solidarieta Italiana« State Medal by the President of Italy and with »Austrian Gold Medal of Merit« by the President of Austria, the »Cultural Medal« of the Republic of Kazakhstan and Slovak Republic’s special award - the »Golden Medal of Honour«.

She has been appointed as the »Goodwill Ambassador of Unicef«.