Milan Turkovic

Milan Turković ( b. 1939 in Zagreb, Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is an Austrian- Croatian bassoonist and conductor.

Milan Turković is a freelance bassoon soloist and conductor and grew up in Vienna. He completed his studies in Vienna and Detmold. During the bassoon student, he was taught simultaneously by Fritz Fence in conducting. He played in the Philharmonia Hungarica and the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. In 1967 he was principal bassoonist of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, and he also plays under Nikolaus Harnoncourt Concentus Musicus Wien, where he initially alongside Otto Fleischmann occurred as second bassoonist, but whose place he took over the early 70s. Turković was the founder of the Ensemble Wien-Berlin, where he remained until 2009 and from 1992 to 2012 Member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York. Since the eighties, he is active as a conductor and enters this function in the major music centers such as Vienna, Prague, Krakow, New York and Tokyo on. In addition, he has worked as a teacher and writer. One of his four books also appeared in Japanese translation. He is married to the former figure skater and TV presenter Ingrid Turković - Wendl.

For a long time he taught at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. From 1992 to 2003 he taught as a professor at the University of Music in Vienna.