Mark Korven

About

The artist

Mark Korven is a Toronto-based composer for film, television, and games. His artist-controlled website and current Core Music Agency roster both identify Toronto as his professional base, and the agency places him in its Ontario composer roster. Korven began as a singer-songwriter and released Passengers in 1984 before moving toward screen composition. His first feature score was for I've Heard the Mermaids Singing in 1987, the same year his album Ordinary Man appeared through Duke Street Records. He later built a broad screen career that includes Cube, The Witch, The Lighthouse, Them, The Black Phone, The Peripheral, Night Swim, The First Omen, Don't Move, and the rebuilt Until Dawn game. His current agency profile also documents active scoring for Billy the Kid and The Institute in 2025. Korven's work frequently combines orchestral writing, electronics, voices, found sounds, and uncommon acoustic instruments. With instrument maker Tony Duggan-Smith, he co-developed the Apprehension Engine, a custom acoustic device designed to generate unstable textures for horror scoring. Core Music Agency reports that performances with the instrument have exceeded ten million YouTube views. The exact Spotify identity 2sb1FcIeDcKtv7UC03gRr8 contains seventeen principal album and single containers available in Canada: thirteen albums and four singles spanning Ordinary Man in 1987 through Black Phone End Credits in May 2025. This is a provider-visible release summary, not a claim that Spotify contains every recording in Korven's career. The representative soundtrack records include The Witch, The Lighthouse, and The First Omen. Apple Music artist 251188493 independently matches the current identity, early singer-songwriter history, screen catalogue, Winnipeg origin, and soundtrack classification. In June 2025, Korven received the inaugural Billboard Canada Screen Composer of the Year award presented by SOCAN. His agency also identifies him as a BMI Award winner. Current representation is through Core Music Agency. MusicList directs professional inquiries to the artist-controlled contact page and does not reproduce the public email addresses or telephone number shown there. Spotify media is displayed only through the provider-attributed live route with a monogram fallback.