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For the 18th century American poet née Anne Dudley, see Anne Bradstreet.

Anne Dudley (born May 7, 1956, Chatham, Kent, England) is an 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 perhaps best known, however, as one of the seminal members of the synthpop band, The Art of Noise.

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 th 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 (now the highest grossing film in the UK of all time). 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).

• Songs from the Victorious City (1990) (collaboration with Killing Joke's Jaz Coleman)
• Ancient and Modern (1999)
• A Different Light (2001)
• Seriously Chilled (2003)
• Black Book (2006)

• Anne Dudley's official webpage
• Anne Dudley and BBC Concert Orchestra
• Anne Dudley (at www.cinemusic.net)
• Anne Dudley (from VH1)
• Zang Tuum Tumb and all that
• Anne Dudley at the Internet Movie Database
• Anne Dudley at All Music Guide
• Anne Dudley at Discogs
• Anne Dudley at MusicBrainz
• Anne Dudley's Songs from victorious City with Jaz Coleman