Younger composers with talent and attitude are redefining music, and foremost amongst them an ever greater number of women – and this is being celebrated in Icebreaker’s new programme featuring music by six fantastic, free, unrepressed, un-categorisable women composers of the new generation.

The exciting programme features new music by Jobina Tinnemans, whose work includes music for table tennis players and hedge shearers, You Are Wolf’s Kerry Andrew, whose output includes an opera about swimming, Nottingham University’s own Elizabeth Kelly, and Australian-Dutch Kate Moore is complemented by Linda Buckley’s exquisite, soaring Azure, plus Anna Meredith’s Orlok and Nautilus from her surging, joyful Moshi Moshi EP’s.

Kate Moore is the 2017 winner of the prestigious Matthijs Vermeulen Prize for composition. The prize, which occupies a similar position in the Netherlands as the Pulitzer Prize does in the US, has never been previously won by a woman. Hear a short excerpt from her prize-winning work, The Dam: