Bio of Slavko Avsenik Jr.

 

Slavko Avsenik jr., one of the Slovenia's leading  film music composers, was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 1958. Coming from a musical family, he soon discovered his penchant for music, especially background music. He was particularly attracted by improvisation, which led to his taking up the study of jazz piano in 1976 at the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts (Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst) in Graz, Austria. During and after his studies he performed and recorded with numerous internationally established jazz musicians. In 1981, he graduated with honors and received the Award of the Austrian Ministry of Culture. He continued his studies at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, USA, where he graduated in film scoring in 1985. He was among the best students and his name was recorded in the book of best American students of 1985. Despite this extraordinary success he returned to his native country to start his career there. This turned out to be much harder than expected so, in 1987, he left again to work abroad. He first worked as a music producer at KOCH Records, Austria, from where he moved to BMG Arioli München, Germany, and later on to Avsenik Music in Regensburg, Germany. He cooperated with the latter for years to come.

In 1991 he returned to Slovenia, taking up the position of music editor at Helidon, a musical department of Založba Obzorja Maribor. This was the beginning of his extensive participation on the Slovenian music scene as author of film and television as well as popular and folk music. Since 1999 he has been working independently in his own music studio Avsenik Audiodesign in Slovenia.

 

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Slavko Avsenik Jr. is interested in a wide range of music genres, which allows him to lead the audience through various emotional states required by particular situations or projects. The power and depth of his dramatic expression span from gentle romanticism to unimaginable terror, from cold reality to unknown mystery, from tragedy to comedy ... To achieve his goals, he makes use of all the means of contemporary virtual music technology as well as the existing orchestras and other music casts, which he combines with his talent for melodiousness, his sense of abstractness, his instinct to set to music that which he sees, and his feeling for the audience.