Alara Hekimoğlu was born in 2004 in Istanbul. In 2014, she started her violin studies with Çiğdem İyicil as a part time student at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Istanbul State Conservatory. She switched to the full-time programme in 2015. Hekimoğlu worked with Bernard Hartog, Lukas David, Fedor Rudin, Pelin Halkacı Akın, Eva Diller Dörnenburg, Gilles Apap, Tuncay Yılmaz, Artur Kaganovsky, Eszter Haffner, Tanja Becker-Bender, Hagai Shaham in various masterclasses and festivals.

In 2018, Hekimoğlu won an Honorary Award at the Classic Pure Vienna International Music Competition held at the Konzerthaus Vienna. In 2019, she performed Wieniawski’s Légende with the Maltepe University Chamber Orchestra. She performed Bruch’s Violin Concerto with the Eskişehir Symphony Orchestra conducted by Patrick Souillot. She gave a recital at All Saints Moda Church. Invited by AIMA in 2020, Hekimoğlu performed Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor at the Vehbi Koç Foundation Award Ceremony. In the 2019/20 academic year, she skipped the eleventh grade and moved from tenth to the twelfth grade. She continued her violin lessons that she started with Pelin Halkacı Akın in 2019.

In the academic year of 2020-2021, Hekimoğlu graduated from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Istanbul State Conservatory with high honours. She got accepted to the Lausanne and Geneva Conservatories. She began Renaud Capuçon’s class at the Lausanne Conservatory. Since 2021, she has been studying with Renaud Capuçon and his assistant François Sochard.

In 2022, Hekimoğlu passed the two-stage exams and won a violin made by Gand & Bernardel (1885) and granted by Fondation Lalive to use throughout her education.

In 2023, Hekimoğlu gave a recital with pianist Can Erkekli at the Notre Dame de Sion French Private High School in Istanbul.