Milan Turković

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Milan Turković (born September 14, 1939 in Zagreb , Kingdom of Yugoslavia ) is an Austrian - Croatian bassoonist and conductor .

Life

Turković is a freelance bassoon soloist and conductor and grew up in Vienna . He completed his studies in Vienna and Detmold . While he was studying bassoon he was also instructed in conducting by Fritz Zaun . He played in the Philharmonia Hungarica and from 1962 to 1967 with the Bamberg Symphony . In 1967 he became principal bassoonist of the Wiener Symphoniker , of which he was a member until 1984. He also plays under Nikolaus Harnoncourt in the Concentus Musicus Wien , where he first appeared as the second bassoonist alongside Otto Fleischmann, whose position he took over in the early 1970s.

Turković was the founder of the Ensemble Wien- Berlin , to which he belonged until 2009, and was a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York from 1992 to 2012. He has been a conductor since the 1980s and has performed in this role in major music centers such as Vienna, Prague , Krakow , New York , São Paulo, Buenos Aires and Tokyo . He is also active as a teacher and writer . One of his four books also appeared in Japanese translation. He is married to the former figure skater and television presenter Ingrid Turković-Wendl .

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

CD recordings (selection)

  • WAMozart, bassoon concerto, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt , (teldec)
  • Fagotto concertante, various bassoon concerts (orfeo)
  • United Sounds of Bassoon, various bassoon quartets (Camerata)
  • Vivaldi bassoon concerts, conductor Trevor Pinnock
  • The Art of Milan Turkovic (Camerata)
  • The bassoon played masterfully (Koch / Schwann)

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Do you have sounds: A musical diary ( memento of the original from April 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dasorchester.de
  2. ↑ List of winners of the Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria . Retrieved August 31, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Turković, Milan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian bassoonist
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Zagreb , Kingdom of Yugoslavia