 He is the son of the Slavko Avsenik.Avsenik graduated from the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in Graz in jazz piano, in 1981, and film music composition at Berklee College of Music in Boston in 1985.During and after college he worked as a composer, arranger and producer, first in Ljubljana, then KOCH International in Austria and as a music editor at Arioli BMG in Germany.