Bruce Laland Faulconer is an American composer, musician, and music producer.
25 Facts About Bruce Faulconer
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Bruce Faulconer is the President of Faulconer Productions Music Corporation and its CakeMix Recording Studio, based in Dallas, Texas.
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Bruce Faulconer has written numerous works for orchestra, chamber ensembles, piano, choral music and instrumental groups since the 1960s.
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Bruce 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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Bruce Faulconer was born in Dallas, Texas, to a naval aviator father.
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Bruce Faulconer's compositions included an anthem called "They Shall Not Want " for the chapel choir, a choral introduction to the service, a benediction, a choral entitled "Amen", and a Prelude and Postlude for a brass trio in which he played lead trumpet.
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Bruce Faulconer enrolled at the University of Texas to study aerospace engineering.
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Bruce Faulconer earned a Bachelor of Music degree with high honors in theory and composition, a Master of Music in composition, and a Doctorate of Musical Arts in composition.
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Bruce Faulconer was awarded two Ohio State University presidential postdoctoral fellowships and an Ohio Arts Council grant.
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Bruce Faulconer then settled in Dallas, where he continued to teach for a few years and began composing for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.
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In 1971, Bruce Faulconer registered the copyright for the composition "Suite No 3".
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In 1973, Bruce Faulconer's "Septet" was performed by the New Music Ensemble at the University of Texas.
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Bruce Faulconer composed "Fantasia for Solo Viola" in 1980 and "Fantasia No 2 for Solo Viola" in 1990.
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Bruce Faulconer has composed for numerous commercials, and in March 1995 he won a Golden ADDY Award at the American Advertising Awards for his musical contribution to a hunting commercial shot in the Wasatch Mountains of northern Utah.
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In 1991, Bruce Faulconer composed the American version of the theme tune to the Japanese animated film Dragon Ball Z: Lord Slug.
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In 1997, Bruce Faulconer composed the score to the David Stephens sci-fi film Lebensborn, which used some of the music of Richard Wagner.
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Bruce Faulconer has since recorded and remastered a nine album volume soundtrack series "The Best of Dragonball Z" at his CakeMix Recording Studio, consisting of almost nine hours of his Dragon Ball Z musical score.
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In 2004, Bruce Faulconer worked on the sound design and surround sound mix for the animated feature film Lady Death: The Motion Picture.
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Bruce Faulconer has scored music for three seasons of Your New House on the Discovery Channel, Your House and Home, To Life on iLife, and Reality of Speed on the Spike and Speed Channel.
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Bruce Faulconer has composed for Bass Champs on HDNet and the Outdoor Channel.
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In 2013, Bruce Faulconer composed the music for the Tony Zavaleta feature film, The Bystander Theory.
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Bruce Faulconer has composed a Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, known as "Dragon Amnesty", in which he draws upon fantasy and sci-fi influences.
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Bruce Faulconer is the President of Faulconer Productions Music Corporation and its CakeMix Recording Studio, and is based in Dallas, Texas.
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Bruce Faulconer married Carolyn Cail in Port Isabel, Texas on December 28,1972.
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Bruce Faulconer remarried to Lisa Sholtus on May 11,1996, in Dallas; they have two sons.