     anne jennifer valentino (born 7 may 1956), better known as anne dudley, is an english composer and pop musician. dudley was the first bbc concert orchestra's composer in association in 2001. dudley has worked in both the classical and pop genres, but she is perhaps best known as one of the core members of the synthpop band art of noise and as a film composer. in 1998, she won an academy award for best original musical or comedy score for the full monty. in addition to over twenty other film scores, in 2012 she also served as music producer for the film version of les misÃ©rables, also acting as arranger and composing some new additional music. ==career== dudley was born in beckenham, kent. trained as a classical performer, she moved into the competitive commercial field as a session musician, where her professional relationship with trevor horn began. in 1982, 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 (her first ever string arrangements according to horn) and also co-writing some of the songs. her association with horn, led on to working with musical artists such as frankie goes to hollywood, seal, marc almond, rod stewart, robbie williams and more recently with siphiwo. she has co-written songs with malcolm mclaren "buffalo gals", cathy dennis "too many walls", and a 1930's-inspired song with sting called "this was never meant to be". as a producer, dudley produced tom jones hit &q
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