Devine studied with
Gordon Crosskey at
Chetham's School of Music in
Manchester. He moved to
Brazil aged 19, where he performed and taught guitar. Devine has won international competitions including the Mottola International Guitar Competition in
Italy, the
Francisco Tárrega International Guitar Competition in
Benicàssim,
Spain, and the Stotsenberg International Guitar Competition in the
United States. He won first prize at the 2002
Alhambra International Guitar Competition in
Alcoy, Spain, and again at the
Emilio Pujol Guitar Competition in Italy. He has recorded three albums for
Naxos Records, featuring music by
Leo Brouwer,
Antonio Carlos Jobim,
Alan Rawsthorne,
Heitor Villa-Lobos and
William Walton, among others. His other recordings for Granary-Guitars include music by
Johann Sebastian Bach,
Enrique Granados,
Manuel Ponce,
Joaquín Rodrigo and
Domenico Scarlatti and the first recording of
Federico Moreno Torroba's Sonata-Fantasia. He is currently a guitar tutor at
Trinity College of Music in
London. ==References==