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Zoltán Dévényi

Zoltan Devenyi, born in Hungary. His career in music started at the age of 4 when he 'conducted' an ad hoc choir of children at kindergarten. Since then he hasn't stopped playing nor performing the guitar (electric, acoustic, classical), the bass guitar and the piano (jazz and classical). The main turning points supporting his musical development are: Schools: - classical piano training for 10 years - another 10 years for the guitar - several music schools for music theory and composing - tonemeister school As a musician: - as a youngster he gave classical piano concerts - later he strarted his own band mixing classical and alternative styles - at the same time he joined an 'avantgarde' guitar quartet - he gained his greatest experience in performing when he was touring with the latin-jazz-funk band 'Tropical Transform'. He plays on the album 'Under the Rainbow'. - he was a composer and musical director of two albums of an afro-pop band called 'Djoliba' - he joined Hungary's most appreciated alternative rock band 'Sziami' - nowadays besides Headless Nation he`s also playing in an electro-classical guitar quartet called 'Plectrum Quartet' - recently he's been working as a recording engineer at 'Alternation Studio' in Hungary.

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