Anne Dudley (born Anne Jennifer Beckingham, 7 May 1956, Chatham, Kent) is an Academy Award-winning English orchestra 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 core members of the synthpop band, Art of Noise. In 1998, she won an Academy Award for Best Original Mus...
more
Anne Dudley (born Anne Jennifer Beckingham, 7 May 1956, Chatham, Kent) is an Academy Award-winning English orchestra 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 core members of the synthpop band, Art of Noise. In 1998, she won an Academy Award for Best Original Musical or Comedy Score for The Full Monty.
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 The 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". In 1990 she contributed strings on the Associates album Wild and Lonely, written by Billy Mackenzie.
Her...
less
