Anthony Hewitt - piano
Rafal Zambrzycki-Payne - violin
Thomas Carroll - cello
Winners of the 2005 Parkhouse International Chamber Music Competition and the 2004 South East Music Schemes, DIMENSION is a unique violin, cello and piano trio of young musicians whose aim is to perform repertoire which is not restricted solely to the piano trio medium. In addition to presenting solos, duos and trios, DIMENSION collaborates with other musicians, often becoming a quartet or a quintet. Guest artists appearing to date include Michael Collins, Tasmin Little, Gervase de Peyer, Julian Rachlin, Rachel Roberts, Radovan Vlatkovich and members of the Belcea and Alban Berg String Quartets.
DIMENSION performed the Beethoven Triple Concerto with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in the Cadogan Hall in London. They also performed this piece with Orquesta Odissea in Madrid's Teatro Monumental and with the Wroclaw and Lodz Philharmonic Orchestras in Poland conducted by Daniel Raiskin and Otis Klöber respectively. Other highlights have included performances on Spanish National Television and critically acclaimed appearances at the Kastav International Festival in Croatia, Bastad and Helsingborg Festivals in Sweden, Lancut Festival and the Warsaw Beethoven Festival in Poland, as well as at the Wigmore Hall, St. John's Smiths Square and the Purcell Room as a result of winning the Parkhouse Award and Audience Prize.
The trio has also performed alongside Tasmin Little as part of her Dream Hunter’s Festival in Leeds, and at the Royal Northern College of Music for the Manchester Chamber Concerts.
In 2006 DIMENSION premiered Richard Hyung-KI Joo’s Triology Dimension and in 2003 Malcolm Singer's Piano Trio, the premiere of which was given at the Wigmore Hall and a few days later at St. John’s Smith Square as part of the composer’s 50th Birthday Concert.
Anthony Hewitt has established a reputation as a pianist of formidable interpretative and technical ability. Highlights of orchestral engagements include the RPO in London, National Symphony Orchestra and Princeton Symphony in the USA, as well as the Northern Chamber Orchestra and Sinfonia Viva in the UK.
He has given four recitals at Wigmore Hall, appeared across the USA including at Carnegie Weill Recital Hall, toured South America and Japan, and performed chamber music at high-profile festivals in Europe including at the Chelsea and Chichester Festivals, Bastad in Sweden, Orpheus and Bacchus and Sanary in France, and Mecklenburg in Germany. Duo partners have included Emma Johnson, Martin Roscoe, Sarah-Jane Bradley, Chloe Hanslip and Narimichi Kawabata with whom he has toured major concert halls in the Far East.
His discography includes 'Protégé' (Divine Art Records) which is the first coupling on CD of the Liszt and Reubke Sonatas. It has been met with much critical acclaim including International Record Review which described it as "magisterial".
Future plans include a recording of the complete piano works of Robert Schumann, performances in South Africa, Poland, Sweden and Japan, and a Wigmore series concert.
In 2012 he is undertaking a special project in-line with the Olympics to bring music to rural areas of the UK when he will cycle from Land's End to John O'Groats and give a concert at the end of each day. Based in London, he is also the founding Artistic Director of the Ulverston International Music Festival
Winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition in 1996, Rafal Zambrzycki-Payne was born in Lodz, Poland. He studied with Wen Zhou Li at the Yehudi Menuhin School and at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, and subsequently in Vienna with Gerhard Schulz where he was also a scholar at the Herbert von Karajan Centre. His studies have been generously funded by various organisations including Ashurst Morris Crisp.
Rafal has performed with orchestras such as the English Chamber Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony, Philharmonia, London Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic in the UK as well as with the Armenian Chamber Orchestra, Danubia Symphony in Budapest, KZN Philharmonic in Durban, Johannesburg Philharmonic, Sinfonia Varsovia, Munich and Zurich Chamber Orchestras. He had the honour of working on several occasions with the late Lord Menuhin as conductor.
He has performed throughout Europe as well as in the Middle East, Far East, USA, South Africa and Zimbabwe in venues including the South Bank Centre, Royal Albert Hall, Wigmore Hall, Barbican, Cadogan Hall, Bridgewater Hall in Machester, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Symphony Hall in Birmingham, Rudolfinum in Prague, Salle Pleyel and Opera de Bastille in Paris, Berlin Konzerthaus, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Herkulessaal in Munich, Megaron in Athens, Teatro Monumental in Madrid and Warsaw Philharmonic to name just a few. He performed Khatchaturian’s Violin Concerto for the composer’s centenary celebr ations with the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra and in 2004 gave the British premiere of Alexander Arutunian’s Violin Concerto as well as performing the work at the composer’s 85thBirthday Concert in Yerevan. In September 2009 he gave the Polish premiere of Hanna Kulenty’s 2nd Violin Concerto with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra during the Warsaw Autumn Contemporary Music Festival.
In 2004 Rafal became the Solo Violinist and Leader of the international Frankfurt-based contemporary music groupEnsemble Modern, as part of which he regularly performs in many of the world’s top venues and festivals. He has performed on numerous occasions as a soloist with the Ensemble Modern (Salzburg Festival - Ferneyhough’s Terrain, Schwetzingen SWR Festival and the Alte Oper in Frankfurt - Berg’s Chamber Concerto).
Festival performances have included the BBC Proms, Berliner Maerz Musik, Festival d’Autumne a Paris, Huddersfield, Luzern, Monte Carlo, Davos, Menuhin Festival Gstaad, Euro Musica Vitae, Bastad, Banff, Domaine Forget, Paxos, Yerevan, Kastav, Warsaw Beethoven Easter Festival and Chanterelle in Poland. Recent chamber music collaborations have included performances with atists such as David Pyatt,Michael Collins, Heinz Holliger, Julian Rachlin, Radovan Vlatkovic and members of the Alban Berg, Belcea and Szymanowski String Quartets. Rafal has had performances broadcast on many radio stations throughout Europe, Asia and Australia.
Rafal’s first commercial recording was released on the EMI Debut Series featuring works by Szymanowski, Britten and Grieg together with pianist Carole Presland.Rafal plays on a violin made by J.B.Villaume in 1844.
The Welsh born cellist Thomas Carroll was Born in Swansea. Thomas studied with Melissa Phelps at the Yehudi Menuhin School and with Heinrich Schiff in Austria. An exceptionally gifted cellist, he is one of only two artists who auditioned successfully for both Young Concert Artists Trust in London and Young Concert Artists, Inc. in New York. He has since gone on to give critically acclaimed debut recitals at Wigmore Hall (London), Alice Tully Hall (NY) and in Boston, California, Florida and Washington DC.
As a concerto soloist Thomas has appeared with the London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, London Mozart Players, ViVA, Orchestra of the East Midlands, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra (conducted by Heinrich Schiff), English Chamber Orchestra, Prague Philharmonic, Sofia Philharmonic, and Bayerischer Rundfunk Orchestra.
Much in demand as a chamber musician, Thomas has worked with the Belcea Quartet, Chilingirian Quartet, Endellion Quartet, Yehudi Menuhin, Ivry Gitlis, Gidon Kremer, Steven Isserlis, Mischa Maisky, Michael Collins, Julian Rachlin at Wigmore Hall, the Edinburgh and Cheltenham International Festivals, among many others. His recordings include Michael Berkeley’s String Quintet with the Chilingirian Quartet for Chandos.
Engagements over the last year have included concerts at Wigmore Hall, the Louvre in Paris, Konzerthaus in Vienna, the Dubrovnik Festival, Bath MozartFest, Mecklenburg Festival and The International Chamber Music Festival in Utrecht with Janine Jansen, Julian Rachlin and Ensemble. Thomas has also given a series of concerts in Tokyo under the auspices of YCA Inc, been resident at the Delft Festival in Holland and appeared as soloist with the BBC Concert Orchestra at the Queen Elizabeth Hall (broadcast by BBC Radio 3), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra and Orchestre Regional de Cannes. In August 07 he made his debut with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in a series of performances of Shostakovich’s Concerto No.2 and was invited to return to the orchestra in 2011. Last season Thomas returned as soloist with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, performs the Dvorák with the Staatsorchester Braumschweiger, Vivaldi Double Concerto with Heinrich Schiff and the Vienna Chamber Orchestra and gave recitals at the Cheltenham Festival and in Holland, Ireland, France, Belgium, Sweden and Japan.Thomas is currently a Professor at the Royal College of Music in London and the Yehudi Menuhin School.