Biography
Mark Korven is a Canadian composer for film and television. He began his career as a singer-songwriter before scoring his first feature, Patricia Rozema’s I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987). He is based in Toronto.
Korven composed the score for the cult science-fiction horror film Cube (1997). He is known for his work on horror films including Robert Eggers’s The Witch (2016) and The Lighthouse (2019), Scott Derrickson’s The Black Phone (2022), and Arkasha Stevenson’s The First Omen (2024). He co-developed the custom instrument The Apprehension Engine for creating unsettling sounds in horror scores.
