About
Anne Dudley has enjoyed a varied and successful career in music, crossing many genres. She has been awarded an Oscar (for “The Full Monty” film score), a Grammy and an Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music.
Anne was appointed the first Composer in Association with the BBC Concert Orchestra.
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“Northern Lights” inspired by the music and culture of Norway was premiered in February 2005 by the orchestra, receiving enthusiastic reviews in "The Times" and "The Independent".
She composed three pieces for children with the cellist Steven Isserlis for narrator and string soloists based on musical fairy tales. These are published by Universal Edition.
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Anne composed two short operas commissioned by the Royal Opera House with libretti by Terry Jones - "The Doctor’s Tale" and "The Owl and the Pussycat". She also composed a musical piece for a Sam Taylor-Wood installation at The White Cube.
Anne has worked internationally, including in 2020 when she composed a multimedia piece for the violinist Joshua Bell entitled "The Man with the Violin". This was premiered in Washington with the National Symphony Orchestra and was performed in Canada at the National Arts Centre. She composed a piece for the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra entitled “Hail the Superheroes”. The commission came about as a result of the SACEM prize awarded for the score to "Elle".
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The world famous Nidaros Cathedral Choir in Trondheim commissioned Anne to write a choral work with string orchestra in 2022. The 20-minute work entitled "One Touch of Nature" has recently been published by Oxford University Press.
Anne has adapted some of her extensive film score works for concert performance.
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Currently available are “The Decadence Waltz” from Stephen Fry’s “Bright Young Things”, “Musique d’Elle” from Paul Verhoeven's film, “Suite from Poldark", “American History X” and “Northern Lights”.