Eker was born in Trabzon. He began his music education at the age of 11 by taking violin lessons. He completed his undergraduate studies in music education at Karadeniz Technical University. During this period, he performed as a violinist in numerous concerts, including with the Trabzon Municipal Chamber Orchestra, which was first established in 2006. In 2007, he studied at the Eszterházy Karoly Föiskola in Eger, Hungary, where he played in both the school orchestra and the Eger Symphony Orchestra. Between 2008 and 2010, he worked as a music teacher at the Ministry of National Education. Between 2010 and 2012, he went to Germany to study, where he received German language and violin training. He also worked as a violin teacher at the Mosaik Kunst- und Kulturhaus in Cologne.
During his Master's degree, he worked with Prof. Saim Akçıl, one of Turkey's leading orchestra conductors and violinists, and graduated from the programme with a thesis entitled "The Contributions of Carl Flesch's Scale System Method to Violin Technique and an Examination of Parallel Technical Methods," supervised by Assistant Professor Dr. Aslı Gidergi Özübek. He completed his Doctorate in Music and Performing Arts at Yıldız Technical University with his thesis titled "The Musical Iconography of the Violin through Folkloric Performance Practices and Traditional Music Repertories: Folkloric Identities Attributed to the Violin in 20th Century Music," written under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Hakkı Alper Maral. Eker, who has worked at various schools affiliated with the Ministry of National Education, primarily at Fine Arts High Schools, has published "Series Works for Violin," which includes various types of arrangements and compositions, primarily instrumental training, "İstanbul for Two Violins," and "Echoes of Anatolia for Solo Violin," which are arrangements for solo violin of melodies from Ahmed Adnan Saygun's book " Töresel Musiki" (Traditional Music), as well as various articles he has written in the field of musicology.
Eker, who has performed as a violinist, conductor and soloist in numerous national and international concerts, currently works as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Musicology at the Faculty of Fine Arts, İzmir Democracy University. He also gives concerts with the "Tree Trio" group and is a member of the Composers, Conductors and Musicologists Association (BESOM).
