Gizem Güllü was born in 2001 in Ankara, Turkey. She started her music education in 2007 with Ahter Destan in the State Polyphonic Children’s Choir. She took part in this choir for 5 years as a chorister. In the same year, she started taking piano and solfeggio lessons with Nuriye Arıkan. In 2012, Güllü took the entrance auditions of Bilkent University Faculty of Music and Performing Arts and was granted a full scholarship. In the same year, she took the entrance auditions of Hacettepe University Ankara State Conservatory and was accepted to the violin department. She decided to begin her studies at Hacettepe University Ankara State Conservatory under Ceylan Kabakçı’s mentorship. She studied violin with Muhammedjan Turdiev in 2016 and continued her education as Turdiev’s and Kabakçı’s student until 2019. During this time, she attended the masterclasses of many prominent names such as Igor Tkatchouk, Adilhoca Aziz, Bahar Kutay, Mincho Minchev, Lutsia Ibragimova, Itzhak Rashkovsky, Mario Hossen and Joanna Kurkowicz.

During her high school years, Güllü performed numerous times with Hacettepe University Ankara State Conservatory Youth Symphony Orchestra and Bilkent Youth Symphony Orchestra. In 2019, she won the position of chief violinist in the auditions of Hacettepe University Ankara State Conservatory Youth Symphony Orchestra and earned the right to play in this position for a term.

In 2019, she graduated from Hacettepe University Ankara State Conservatory High School. In the same year, she took the undergraduate entrance exam of Turku University of Applied Sciences in Finland and continued her studies there as Alexander Vinnitski’s student. In her third year at the school, she decided to switch to viola. She continues her viola studies in the same school with Harri Sippe.

In September 2022, she qualified as a competitor in the Oulu Viola Competition held in Oulu, Finland. As part of the competition, Güllü participated in masterclasses with jury members Jouko Mansnerus, Yuval Gotlibovich, Anna-Kreetta Gribajcevic, Lars Anders Tomter and Diemut Poppen. During her undergraduate education in Finland, she gave many solo, chamber music and orchestra concerts. Thanks to the pedagogical training she received in addition to the instrument training, she gave violin and viola lessons to many students. Today, she continues her undergraduate education as a fourth year student at Turku University of Applied Sciences.