 | Sally Turk Associate Professor of Music Office: Mary Moody Northen Hall, Room 135
Email: sturk@wtamu.edu
Phone: 806-651-2837
Professional Profile Turk joined the Sybil B. Harrington College of Fine Arts and Humanities in 1978. She received a B.M.E. in 1963 from the Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory of Music, a M.M. in flute with distinction from Indiana University in 1972, and has additional studies in business. Teaching and Related Service Turk has taught at Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Indiana University, Youngstown State University, and Leysin American School in Switzerland. She has taught flute at WTAMU since 1978.
Turk is a sought after clinician and adjudicator and maintains an active performance schedule as principal flute in the Amarillo Symphony and other area groups. She has served as executive director of the Greater Southwest Music Festival and chairman of the Myrna K. Brown International Flute Competition. She was instrumental in the formation of a degree with concentration in music business at WTAMU and continues to teach and advise students in that area.
Turk received the Teaching Excellence Award at WTAMU in 1995. Students under her direction have won both the Flute Talk and Myrna K Brown competitions.
Personal Sketch Turk has a daughter who works in administration at the University of Nevada in Reno. She is widely traveled and looks forward to encouraging WTAMU students to expand their views of the world through foreign study. The outdoors and particularly golf are other interests. | | |
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