A native of Turkey, Yesim enjoys a music career, teaching class music and piano. She is a specialist for professional accompaniment and has participated on numerous concerts in the USA and oversees.

She has served as accompanist for Stulberg String Competition in Michigan, the Istanbul International Music Festival Educational Master Class Series and Ohio Valley Cello Festival. During her tenure at Kalamazoo College she taught piano and was the staff accompanist for Suzuki Program. She also collaborated with the faculty and students at Western Michigan University. Since 2002, Mrs. Dikener has been the director of Preparatory Music Program at Marshall University where she performed at many events in and out of campus.

Before moving to the USA, Mrs. Dikener was on the faculty of Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey where she served as staff accompanist, specializing in string instruments repertory. Also a graduate of Hacettepe University, she produced her debut compact disc in 1998.

Yesim lives in Princeton, New Jersey and happy to join the Freehold Music family as our YMS instructor.