- For the 18th century American poet née Anne
Dudley, see Anne Bradstreet.
Anne Dudley (born May 07, 1956 (1956-05-07)
(age 51)) is
an English
orchestral
composer
and pop
musician, and was the BBC Concert Orchestra's composer in
Association between January 2002 and January
2005. She has worked in both the classical and pop genres.
She is perhaps best known, however, as one of the seminal members of
the synthpop
band,
Art
of Noise.
Career
Dudley was born in Chatham, Kent in 1956. Trained as a classical performer,
Dudley then moved to the competitive commercial field as a session
musician, where her professional relationship
with Trevor
Horn began. (In 1981 Dudley made significant contributions to
the Horn produced Lexicon of Love
album by ABC).
She went from fleshing-out keyboard parts to scoring the
album's orchestrations and even co-writing the song, "4 Ever 2
Gether".
Her pop arranging career has included work with
groups such as The Pet Shop Boys and Frankie Goes to Hollywood
and Lloyd Cole and the
Commotions, whose Rattlesnakes
album was an early standout effort. She has also co-written a 1930's inspired song
with Sting
called "This Was Never Meant To Be" in 1996, which is on his U.S.
released Maxi
Single entitled "I'm So Happy That I Can't Stop Crying". She was a
founding member of Art of Noise, who helped
pioneer the use of electronic and incidental music within the pop music
context.
Dudley's music for film includes the powerful score for American
History X, Tristan & Isolde
(film), as well as The
Crying Game and Buster,
and in 1998
she won the "Best Original Musical or Comedy Score" Oscar
for The Full Monty.
Her TV
music includes scores for Kavanagh Q.C.,
Jeeves and Wooster
and The Perfect Blue. She has also worked as a session
musician for many clients. In 2004, she both scored and produced the
album Voice for Alison Moyet (the two are neighbours).
Discography
- Songs From the
Victorious City (1990) (collaboration with Killing
Joke's Jaz Coleman)
- Jeeves and Wooster
(1990)
- Ancient and Modern (1999)
- A Different Light (2001)
- Club Classical - Orchestral chillout sounds
- a compilation of album tracks and live recordings available only from
BBC Music Magazine.
- Seriously Chilled (2003)
- Black Book
(2006)
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