Sven Faulconer is a Los Angeles-based composer for film and television, recognized for his wide-ranging and distinctive musical voice. His recent credits include Searchlight’s horror-comedy Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, 20th Century Studio’s horror-thriller Psycho Killer, and the indie dramedy Lost and Found in Cleveland starring the venerable Martin Sheen and June Squibb. He also just finished Mindhouse’s Hanging By a Wire, which premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival.
Faulconer’s score for Scream VI earned the ASCAP Top Box Office Screen Music Award, and he composed the music for the 2023 Academy Award–winning documentary The Elephant Whisperers, which also received Best Score nominations from the Jackson Wild Festival and the Hollywood Music in Media Awards. Additional notable credits include Rob Lowe’s Netflix comedy series Unstable (co-composed with Mark Foster) and Hellboy: The Crooked Man, the fourth installment in the Hellboy franchise.
Known for his collaborative spirit and strong storytelling instincts, Faulconer has also contributed music to major productions such as Top Gun: Maverick, Aquaman, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Ad Astra, Black Widow, Abominable, The Hunger Games films, and Nightcrawler.
Faulconer began formal music training at age eight as a clarinetist, developing an early aptitude for improvisation and composition. His studies took him from Ghent, Belgium, to Rome, before concluding in Los Angeles at UCLA’s renowned Film Scoring Program. Since then he’s had many collaborations with composers including James Newton Howard, Brian Tyler, Rupert Gregson-Williams, Steve Jablonsky, Henry Jackman, and Lorne Balfe.