Hans Van Even was born in Turnhout (Belgium) on 4 June 1969. At age 11 he began playing the guitar after listening to performances by Alvin Lee, Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Page, ... He studied classical music from the age of 14 for about 5 years (guitar with Raphaella Smiths) at RIKSO Belgium. Later he studied jazz & modern music for 3 years at "Jazz Studio" Antwerp (Belgium) . At this period, his group played opening gigs for artists like Joe Cocker, Christopher Cross and John Miles and recorded as session guitarist for some Belgian artists. In January 1993 he moved to France to join the fusion-jazz group Stolen. With Stolen he played opening acts for Mike Stern and André Ceccarelli among others. From 1993-2000, Hans has taught guitar and improvisation at CIAM ( college of contemporary music in Bordeaux, France). He appeared in the Guitarist magizine (France) in September 1998 & in GuitarXtreme (France) in 2010 Since 2000 he has played with numerous artists and did demonstrations for brands like Washburn, Roland, Randall, Blackstar Amplification, ... and played in Japan, Musikmesse, France, Spain, Holland, Belgium and is currently endorsed by Siggi Braun guitars and Blackstar Amplifiers. He just released his first solo CD called Stardust Requiem, a 77 minutes voyage travelling many styles, with two of his favorite guitarists, Tony MacAlpine and Brett Garsed, on guest solos. Hans is also a guitar and UI designer for www.musicworks.fr and has co-designed the whole Parallaxe Series guitars for Washburn. www.hansvaneven.net