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It was at the initiative of Bruno Kele-Baujard that the ZENE ensemble was created in 2014 (ZENE is pronounced [zɛnɛ] and means music in Hungarian). 

This group of varying numbers brings together young professional instrumentalists and singers from major European conservatories.

Essentially devoted to early music, ZENE is particularly famous in the Italian Baroque repertoire. The ensemble also tackles the romantic repertoire with Johannes Brahms' German Requiem alongside Duo Jatekok. Among the programs tackled by the ensemble, we can cite the Madrigals of Monteverdi and Gesualdo, a program of English renaissance music, and also the Motets and Cantatas of Jean-Sébastien Bach.

At the initiative of its artistic director of Hungarian origin, the year 2018 marks the beginning of a vast musicological research around Hungarian baroque music, a forgotten repertoire of the 17th and 18th century (Kájoni János, Seregély Mátyás).

In February 2018 the first album of the ensemble "VIA DOLOROSA" was released around the Stabat Mater by Domenico Scarlatti (Klarthe Label).

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ZENE is the guest of prestigious festivals in France and in Europe (Musical Weeks of Quimper, Festival of the Abbeys of Lorraine, Voci d'Europa (Italy), Présence Baroque au Puy)

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