Concert pianist, accompanist, chambermusician, pedagogue and artistic director, Sebastian Ené has forged an artistic path where performance, transmission and creation converge within a continuous and evolving practice.
Formed by leading musical figures including Michaël Lévinas, Roger Tessier, Corneliu Gheorghiu, Roger Muraro, Emmanuel Strosser, Viniciu Moroianu, Magda Stănescu and Sorin Baroți, and further shaped through his work with Jean-Claude Pennetier, Gabriel Tacchino, Dominique Merlet and Ewa Osinska, his trajectory reflects a sustained engagement with the depth and plurality of musical thought.
After an early period marked by intensive performing activity and competition, his arrival in Paris marked a turning point, opening his work towards interdisciplinary forms and long-term artistic collaborations. He has since worked with musicians including Virgil Boutelis-Taft, Vincent Chaignet, the Quatuor Girard, Askar Ishangaliyev, Jacques Dor, Andrei Kivu, Bogdan Mihailescu, Rea Veizi, Elena and Alfredo Poésina, Michèle Franceschi, Pétré Ené, Basha Slavinska and Tanguy de Williencourt, as well as with actors and visual artists.
At the core of his work lies a sustained commitment to contemporary music, particularly within the French tradition. Through his close artistic dialogue with composers Michaël Lévinas and Roger Tessier, he has developed a reflection on sound as a living phenomenon - shaped by resonance, space and the unfolding of musical time.
Within this horizon, he is engaged in the creation and recording of new works and in the development of commissioning projects, including Les Fleurs du Paradis, a tribute to Notre-Dame de Paris, conceived with the Quatuor Girard and written by the composer Matthieu Stefanelli. He has also collaborated with the flutist François Veilhan on a project dedicated to the recording of the complete works for flute by Roger Tessier, and has premiered the Impromptus dedicated to him by Roger Tessier, as well as works for two singers and piano.
He is also involved in a recording project of the complete works for piano by Dinu Lipatti, alongside the Versailles-based pianist Jacques Dor.
Through these engagements, he contributes to shaping an interpretative space in which the works of the past and those of the present are not opposed, but brought into resonance within a continuous artistic line.
A laureate of the Fondation Banque Populaire and recipient of support from the L'Or du Rhin, Meyer, Tarrazi and Fortuna foundations, he was also selected by the Académie des Beaux-Arts, Institut de France, or a residency at the Château de Lourmarin. Alongside his performing activity, he develops projects as artistic director of the Festival des Trois Soleils and pursues a deeply committed pedagogical work. He currently teaches piano at the Conservatoire Darius Milhaud in Paris.