For more then 24 years, Hans Van Even has been a respected guitarist at home in a variety of different styles. He was born in Belgium on 4 June 1969 in a familly of paint artists.

At age 11 he began playing the guitar and from 1984 to 1991 he studied classical music at Rikso and jazz music at Jazz Studio in Antwerp, Belgium. Hans played opening acts for artists like Joe Cocker, Christopher Cross, John Miles, Mike Stern, André Ceccarelli ... From 1993 to 2000, Hans taught Guitar, Improvisation, Music & Computer, Sight reading and Ensemble at CIAM ( College of Contemporary Music in Bordeaux, France). He worked and recorded with several Belgian, French, Spanish and American artists (Philippe Duvignac, Fabian Barnes, Garlo, Didier Ballan ...) and toured in Belgium, France, Holland, Spain & Japan. Over the last years Hans did guitar demonstrations for Roland, Digidesign & IK Multimedia. He's actually busy as a graphics artist, guitarist, teacher & is demonstrator for Washburn & Randall France (Arbiter France).