Anne Dudley - film composer:

Anne Dudley has always had a close relationship to pop music. No sooner had she graduated from London's Royal College of Music than she got a job as a session keyboardist working for producer Trevor Horn. In her early career she helped to arrange material for a number of groups, and contributed the prominent keyboard parts to ABC's "The Book of Love" and Frankie goes to Holliwood's "Two Tribes". Her career then took a more innovative turn when, along with Gary Langan and Paul Morley, she formed the experimental group "The Art of Noise". This collaborative effort initially specialised in taking various sound samples and moulding them into distinctive techno tracks, and then looked for inspiration from other genres including Jazz and World Music. The group split up for a while and then released a late comeback album called "The Seduction of Claude Debussy".

Meanwhile Dudley had quietly established herself as a composer for film and television. There, her solid classical training and wide experience in popular music has enabled her to demonstrate a versatility which has kept her talents in demand. Her Oscar win for "The Full Monty" (one of very few women to have achieved that recognition in film music) has naturally added to her stature in the industry. Since her Oscar win Dudley has continued to work very hard indeed. For Television she has scored a number of one-off dramas and at least two notable Mini-Series. In the UK she scored "Crime Traveller" and in the US she scored the longer running "The 10th Kingdom", which brought her music to a new young audience as the series established something of a cult following. She has also continued to work on several movies per year, and her filmography now includes more from the fantasy genre such as "Monkeybone", the "Human Body" documentary, the thriller "The Gathering", "Bright Young Things" for Stephen Fry and recent A-list movies "Tristan & Isolde" and "Black Book".

Anne Dudley was recently seen at the Royal Albert Hall conducting the BBC Concert Orchestra for a show called "Bill Bailey's Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra" which mixed classical music, some education and comedy. This show is now set to tour a number of venues across the UK.

Films by Anne Dudley:

• Buster - starring and with songs sung by Phil Collins
• The Mighty Quinn
• Wilt
• The Pope Must Die - or "Diet" in some countries!
• The Crying Game
• The Full Monty - better known for the songs which helped to revive the careers of some artists, but Dudley's music does make a subtle and important oscar-winning contribution
• Pushing Tin - this film about Air Traffic Controllers opens with a modern pop-influenced main title
• The Human Body
• Bright Young Things
• Tristan & Isolde - a tale of legendary passion and tragedy
• Perfect Creature
• Black Book - ("Zwartboek" in its Dutch release) for Paul Verhoeven including a number of songs of the period, set during WWII

TV music by Anne Dudley:

• Rory Bremner
• Jeeves and Wooster
• Crime Traveller
• Kavanagh, QC - a traditional theme tune, far removed from the pop world
• The 10th Kingdom - a fantasy mini-series which established a cult following

Recommendations:

• The Full Monty - from Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com
• Buster - from Amazon.com
• The 10th Kingdom - from Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com
• Tristan & Isolde - from Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com
• Black Book - from Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com