Bruce Faulconer is an American musician, composer and record producer. He writes music for orchestra, chamber ensembles, piano, and various instrumental, and choral music groups. Faulconer composed, performed, and recorded the music for the feature film, Bystander Theory in 2013. He worked on the feature film score for War and Honor.
Faulconer also writes music for feature films and television series including the anime Dragon Ball Z, that has aired on Cartoon Network, it received ratings as the Nielsen Number One Rated show in Children's Programming for Cable TV (awarded 3 times from 2001-2003), see Nielsen Company. Faulconer's Dragon Ball Z music aired on the Cartoon Network version of the series from 1999 to 2008 and he composed the theme tune of the US version of the 1991 film Dragon Ball Z: Lord Slug.
He is the owner and founder of Faulconer Productions, and CakeMix Recording studio. Faulconer records much of his music at CakeMix Recording, including 243 episodes of series Dragon Ball Z on Cartoon Network, 3 seasons of Your New House on the Discovery Channel, Your House and Home, To Life on iLife, Reality of Speed on Spike and Speed Channel, Bass Champs on HDNet and the Outdoor Channel, and sound design for 2 seasons of the infamous Cheaters in syndicated television, and sound design and surround sound mix for Lady Death, the motion picture, and audio post for HD shows including Higher Definition, PASSPORT LOVE, and Higher Definition Take 2. In 2013, Faulconer composed the music for the feature film, Bystander Theory.
His television music for Dragon Ball Z, commissioned by FUNimation, began with season 3, episode 67/68 in 1999 and continued through the end of the series in 2003 with episode 291. Faulconer created a 9 album soundtracks series with almost 9 hours of his Dragon Ball Z television musical score, which was recorded and mastered at CakeMix Recording.
Faulconer's music has been acknowledged by numerous national and international performances and first prizes from competitions sponsored by organizations including the Elkhart Symphony Orchestra, the Fort Worth Symphony, the World Saxophone Congress (second prize), as well as recognition from the International Gaudeamus Music Week, the Concorso Internazionale Luigi Russolo, and the Texas Manuscript Archives.
Most recently, Faulconer has collaborated with lyricist/writer Chris Parsons to compose 20 children's songs for Chris Parson's "A Little Spark", winner of the Mom's Choice Award in 2020.The first book in a series of 3 was released in 2020, and the second book is being released at the end of 2022.
