Born in Munich, Turban's mother was a pianist, his father a music-loving physician, his sister Dietlinde an actress.
At the age of 12 he was accepted into the violin class of Gerhart Hetzel [de] in Munich.
In 1995, he received a professorship at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart.
[3] Since 2006, Turban has been a professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München.
[4] Turban plays the great violin literature "from Bach to Berg",[5] but also many rarely or never before heard works of all styles.