Anne Dudley is a musician, composer, arranger and producer. Her work straddles the pop and classical worlds in a unique way.

She studied music for 3 years at the Royal College of Music gaining a Performer’s Diploma and was awarded the B. Mus prize for the highest marks in her year. This was followed by a year at King’s College where Anne was awarded a Masters Degree. In 2004 the Royal College of Music recognized Anne’s outstanding career by awarding her a prestigious Fellowship.

Her career in pop music started with a meeting with Trevor Horn in the early 1980s. She was the keyboard player and arranger on such records as ABC’s “Lexicon of Love”, Frankie goes to Hollywood’s “Two Tribes” and Malcolm McLaren’s “Buffalo Gals” which she co-wrote.

Anne was a founding member of Art of Noise, whose pioneering attitude towards sampling was highly innovative and remains influential to this day. Art of Noise are popularly remembered for their collaborations with Duane Eddy (“Peter Gunn”), Max Headroom (“Paranoimia”) and Tom Jones (“Kiss”) but it is tracks such as “Moments in Love” and “Close to the Edit” which have provided the blueprint for the “remixology” age. The group re-invented itself for the Millennium with a stunning album “The Seduction of Claude Debussy”.

Anne has written with and arranged for artists such as Pulp, Phil Collins, Jeff Beck, Seal and Elton John. In fact Anne’s string arrangements can be heard on a wide range of records – from Boyzone and Travis to Rod Stewart and S Club 7. She played the piano and contributed a string arrangement to Will Young’s number 1 single “Leave right now”.

Anne’s first solo album ”Ancient and Modern” was released on Echo Records in the UK and EMI Angel in the USA in 1995 to critical acclaim. Her second album “A Different Light” including a classical re-arrangement of “Moments in Love” was released in 2002. She arranged and conducted a spectacular concert of “chill out” music for the orchestra which took place at the Royal Festival Hall in October 2002 and Brixton Academy in February 2003. This concert was repeated in the idyllic outdoor setting of Kenwood on Saturday July 10 th 2004. The album “Seriously Chilled” – a new take on chill-out music was released on EMI in 2003.

Anne has been writing music for films for fifteen years. Her scores include “The Crying Game” “Buster”,”Pushing Tin” and the long-running TV series “Jeeves and Wooster”. Anne won an Oscar in 1998 for “The Full Monty” score. It is now the highest grossing film in the UK of all time! The soundtrack won a Brit at the 1998 awards and is already a triple platinum album.

Other scores Anne has completed include the animated feature for the BBC/S4C entitled “The Miracle Maker” (the story of the New Testament with Ralph Fiennes as the voice of Jesus), and a ten part drama for HBO - “The Tenth Kingdom”. Anne scored Tony Kayes’s first feature for New Line Cinema, “American History X”. Her long working relationship with Tony has resulted in many award-winning commercials such as Volvo (“Twister”) Vauxhall Astra (“Hundreds of Babies”), Reebok (“Field of Dreams”) and Guinness (“Fishing”). In addition she has been scoring the outstanding Stella Artois commercials for several years.

She scored Stephen Fry’s acclaimed debut feature “Bright Young Things”. Her score for the BBC drama “The Key” in 2003 was nominated for an Ivor Novello award. Her most current films are Black Book (directed by Paul Verhoeven) and "The Walker" directed by Paul Schrader.

Anne was appointed the first Composer in Association with the BBC Concert Orchestra in 2001. Her first commission was “Music and Silence” an orchestral score based on scenes from Rose Tremain’s novel, which received its premiere at the Orchestra’s 50 th Birthday Celebration Concert at the Royal Festival Hall in September 2002. A Christmas concert based on the theme of “Ancient and Modern” took place in December 2003 with the vocal ensemble I Fagiolini at the Queen Elizabeth Hall and featured the world premiere of Anne’s cantata “A Winter Solstice”. This concert was so popular and successful it was reprised at the Chichester Festival Theatre in December 2004.“Northern Lights” inspired by the music and culture of Norway was premiered in February 2005 and repeated in November 2006 receiving enthusiastic reviews in "The Times" and "The Independent".

Anne produced and arranged Alison Moyet’s hit album entitled “Voice” a collection of evocative and atmospheric standards. Alison toured to promote the album in April and May 2005.

In December 2007 the Old Vic production of Cinderella, adapted by Stephen Fry, included songs and incidental music composed by Anne. The show was a sell out for its entire run and may be revived very soon.