Anne Dudley

Anne Jennifer Dudley (née Beckingham; born 7 May 1956) is an English composer, keyboardist, conductor and pop musician. She was the BBC Concert Orchestra’s first Composer in Association in 2001. She has worked in the classical and pop genres, as a film composer, and was one of the core members of the synth-pop band Art of Noise. In 1998, Dudley won an Oscar for Best Original Musical or Comedy Score for The Full Monty. In addition to over twenty other film scores, in 2012 she served as music producer for the film version of Les Misérables, also acting as arranger and composing some new additional music. Career Dudley was born in Chatham, Kent. She attended Eltham Hill Grammar School for Girls. She graduated with a master’s degree in music from King’s College London in 1978. Trained as a classical performer, she moved into the competitive commercial field as a session musician, where her professional relationship with Trevor Horn began. In 1982, Dudley contributed to the ABC album The Lexicon of Love, produced by Horn. She went from fleshing out keyboard parts to scoring the album’s orchestrations (which were, according to Horn, her first-ever string arrangements) and also co-writing