WHEN Betty Accorsi arrived in London to study jazz saxophone at Trinity Laban College, she found a home in Greenwich in the shadow of the renowned tea clipper the Cutty Sark.
For Accorsi, the dry-docked hulk “represented a sense of belonging to the greater, more diverse community that I found in London.”
Born in Milan in 1989, she initially studied classical saxophone but it was two jazz saxophonists who most inspired her: “Wayne Shorter and his beautiful playing of the soprano saxophone and also his ability to compose.
“And I love the English saxophonist John Surman for his extraordinary open mind and how he combines jazz with electronics and English folk music.”