[1] 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.
[2] 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".
Korven plays several exotic instruments, including the Sarangi, the Nyckelharpa, the Duduk, the Erhu, and the water phone.
[4] 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.