MILAN TURKOVIĆ

Conductor

Milan Turković grew up in Vienna and became internationally-famous as a bassoon soloist. Over the past two decades, he has become a successful conductor, making appearances all over the world, such as Vienna, Salzburg, Florence, London, New York, Tokyo, with orchestras such as the Vienna Symphony, the Prague Philharmonia, and Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra and so on. The August 2009 issue of the important Japanese music magazine “Ongaku No Tomo” listed him in a shortlist as one of the twenty most interesting conductors in the Tokyo music scene. A recipient of the Edison Award, he also received the German “Echo Klassik”Award in 2010. Turkovic has worked with the soloists M. Maisky, M. Schade, S. Nakariakov and many others. As a soloist, he has performed in almost all the musical centers of the world with numerous renowned orchestras. He was a member of Concentus Musicus Wien, of Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and a founding member of Ensemble Wien-Berlin. He has appeared at important festivals all over the world. He has performed numerous premiere performances, including works by J. Francaix, W. Riehm and W. Marsalis. His discography currently consists of 9 CDs as a conductor and hundreds of recordings as a soloist and chamber musician. In print, Turković is the author of four books. A book about the Concentus Musicus Vienna also appeared in a Japanese translation (AlphaBeta publishing). Turkovic’s fifth book will appear in September 2019. He regularly acts as a jury member and jury chairman at international competitions.