Deven recently earned his master’s degree from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in the studio of Kevin Murphy. There, he served as a teaching assistant in collaborative piano. He has collaborated on numerous operas such as Gounod's Roméo et Juliette with the Tel Aviv Summer Opera Program and Cedar Rapids Opera's production of Puccini's Tosca. With the Indiana University Opera Theater, he collaborated in productions of Roméo et Juliette, Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, and the world premiere of Shulamit Ran's Anne Frank. Deven currently resides in Erie, Pennsylvania.