Tenor saxophonist Trish Clowes has a deep empathy for the poems of Oscar Wilde, for in the sleeve notes of her last two albums she quotes his words at length as if she aspires to the true poetry of sound.

Born in Shrewsbury in 1984, a father’s tutelage had her playing piano at four and then the clarinet, before a visit to a local big band festival rehearsal gave her a first blow on a saxophone — and she hasn’t put it down since.

She moved to London in 2003 to study at the Royal Academy of Music and in 2008 won an award from the Musicians Benevolent Fund to form her new sextet, Tangent, which was also the title of her debut album of 2010.