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Bruce Faulconer

From: Dallas, United States
Since: 1951–present
Rating: ★ 5 (1 votes)
Releases: 10

About

Bruce Laland Faulconer is an American composer, musician, and music producer. He is the President of Faulconer Productions Music Corporation and its CakeMix Recording Studio, based in Dallas, Texas. Faulconer wrote the score for 243 episodes of the Funimation English dub of the Japanese anime series Dragon Ball Z which aired in America from 1999 to 2003 on Cartoon Network and composed the theme tune of the US version of the 1991 film Dragon Ball Z: Lord Slug. He has since released a remastered nine album volume series of his works, The Best of Dragonball Z.

He has written numerous works for orchestra, chamber ensembles, piano, choral music and instrumental groups since the 1960s. A number of his works have been performed by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and others and he has worked extensively with various universities and colleges, most notably the University of Texas. Compositions include "Saxophone and Percussion" (1972), "Music for Chamber Orchestra" (1975), "Interface I" (1978), "Fantasia for Solo Viola (1980), "Sonata for flute and piano" (1986) and "Washington-on-the-Brazos, a Symphonic Poem" (1986), "Fantasia No. 2 for Solo Viola" (1990), and "Dragon Amnesty"—a Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (2020).
Since 2020 he has collaborated with children's author Chris Parsons in composing songs for his children's audiobook series, A Little Spark, which is to be adapted into an animated children's TV series. Faulconer has composed for numerous commercials, and in March 1995 he won a Golden ADDY Award at the American Advertising Awards for composing the music to a hunting commercial.

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