 He is a former Professor of Organ at West Chester University (1992–1999) and in 2013 became professor of organ instruction at Rowan University.Turk is particularly well known as resident organist of the Great Auditorium in Ocean Grove, New Jersey.Since he took this post in 1974, the famed Robert Hope-Jones organ has been enriched with a remarkably diverse tonal palette and expanded to its current size of 207 ranks and 12,200 total pipes, played from a five-manual console.