Mark Korven is a Canadian musician and composer for film and television. He is the music composer of Until Dawn (2024 Remake).
His previous works include compositions for the horror films Cube (1997, dir. Vincenzo Natali), The Witch (2015, dir. Robert Eggers), and The Lighthouse (2019, dir. Robert Eggers).
Life and career[]
During his early career in Winnipeg, Korven performed in a variety of rock and jazz music ensembles, mostly playing the guitar and singing in local bars. In 1977, he started taking formal music education at the Grant MacEwan Community College in Edmonton where he studied jazz and orchestration. After graduating, he developed into a singer / songwriter and recorded his first album of left-of-center pop entitled "Passengers". In 1987 he moved to Toronto, where he recorded the album "Ordinary Man" with Duke Street Records, and that same year he had his first chance at composing for film, with the score for Patricia Rozema's debut feature I've Heard the Mermaids Singing. which went on to win the La Prix de la Jeunesse at the Cannes Film Festival.
His work includes the music on the sci-fi horror cult film Cube (1997), collaborations with director Robert Eggers on the period horror films The Witch (2015) and The Lighthouse (2019), Scott Derrickson's The Black Phone (2022), and Arkasha Stevenson's The First Omen (2024).
Korven plays several exotic instruments, including the Sarangi, the Nyckelharpa, the Duduk, the Erhu, and the water phone. He was also responsible for the co-creation of "The Apprehension Engine", a custom made musical instrument intended for the creation of unsettling noises to be used on scoring horror films, built by guitar luthier Tony Duggan-Smith.
Works[]
- 1987 – I've Heard the Mermaids Singing
- 1990 – White Room
- 1991 – Sam & Me
- 1992 – The Grocer's Wife
- 1992 – Voices from the Shadows
- 1994 – Henry & Verlin
- 1994 – The Michelle Apartments
- 1995 – Curtis's Charm
- 1996 – Lyddie (TV)
- 1996 – Joe's Wedding
- 1996 – Giant Mine
- 1997 – Cube
- 1999 – Win, Again! (TV)
- 1999 – The Sheldon Kennedy Story (TV)
- 2000 – Falling Through
- 2000 – Saint Jude
- 2001 – Tagged: The Jonathan Wamback Story (TV)
- 2014 – Cruel and Unusual
- 2015 – The Witch
- 2017 – Awakening the Zodiac
- 2018 – Our House
- 2019 – The Lighthouse
- 2021 – No One Gets Out Alive
- 2021 – Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City
- 2022 – The Black Phone
- 2024 – Night Swim
- 2024 – The First Omen
- 2024 – Don't Move
Television[]
- 1988 – The Twilight Zone
- 1991 – Grand Larceny
- 1993–1994 – Destiny Ridge
- 1997 – Michael Grey Eyes
- 1997 – The New Ice Age
- 1997–1999 – A Scattering of Seeds
- 1999–2003 – The Nature of Things
- Love Is Not Enough
- 2002 – New Year's Resolutions
- 2002 – Friday the 13th: The Devil in Dover
- 2003 – The Ex-Factor
- 2003 – Talk Mogadishu: Media Under Fire
- 2003 – Hollywood Wives: The New Generation
- 2004 – Winning
- 2005 – The Dark Years
- 2007 – America at a Crossroads
- 2008–2010 – The Border
- 2019 – The Terror: Infamy
- 2020–2021 – Them: Covenant
- 2020–2021 – Chapelwaite
- 2022 — The Peripheral
Documentaries[]
- 1990 – Transplant, the Breath of Life
- 1990 – Between Two Worlds
- 1994 – Lawn and Order
- 1994 – The Lucky Ones: Allied Airmen in Buchenwald
- 1996 – Power
- 1997 – Confessions of a Rabid Dog
- 1998 – The Man Who Might Have Been: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Herbert Norman
- 2001 – A Moment in Time: The United Colours of Bronstein
- 2003 – Arctic Dreamer
- 2004 – Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire
- 2005 – Hogtown: The Politics of Policing
- 2005 – The Ungrateful Dead: In Search of International Justice
- 2006 – The Man Who Couldn't Sleep
- 2007 – Triage: Dr. James Orbinski's Humanitarian Dilemma
- 2005 – Nugliak
- 2007 – A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman
- 2007 – Turning Pages: The Life and Literature of Margaret Atwood
- 2008 – Tiger Spirit
- 2009 – The Experimental Eskimos
- 2009 – Pushing the Line: Art Without Reservations
- 2011 – Earth from Space
- 2013 – Fight like Soldiers, Die like Children
- 2016 – All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception and the Spirit of I. F. Stone
Video Games[]
- 2024 – Until Dawn (2024 Remake)