Mark Korven is a Canadian musician and composer for film and television. During his early career in Winnipeg, Korven performed in various rock and jazz ensembles, primarily as a guitarist and vocalist in local bars. In 1977, he began formal music education at Grant MacEwan Community College in Edmonton, where he studied jazz and orchestration. After completing his studies, he developed into a singer-songwriter and recorded his first album of experimental pop music titled "Passengers". In 1987, he relocated to Toronto, where he recorded the album "Ordinary Man" with Duke Street Records. That same year, he composed his first film score for Patricia Rozema’s debut feature "I've Heard the Mermaids Singing", which won the Prix de la Jeunesse at the Cannes Film Festival. Korven is known for his work on the sci-fi horror film "Cube" (1997), as well as for his collaborations with director Robert Eggers on the horror films "The Witch" (2015) and "The Lighthouse" (2019). His later works include the score for Scott Derrickson’s "The Black Phone" (2022) and Arkasha Stevenson’s "The First Omen" (2024). He plays a range of traditional and unconventional instruments, including the sarangi, nyckelharpa, duduk, erhu, and waterphone. He also co-created "The Apprehension Engine", an instrument designed specifically to produce unsettling sounds for horror film scores, in collaboration with guitar luthier Tony Duggan-Smith. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Mark+Korven">Read more on Last.fm</a>. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.