Murray Lightburn & Natalia Yanchak on CBC's Q

Listen/watch a wonderful interview with Core composer Murray Lightburn and wife Natalia Yanchak as they talk with CBC's Tom Power about their long-running musical collaboration "The Dears".

Watch it on youTube here.

Game Theory Films Picks Up Alberta Number One

The docufiction hybrid by Alexander Carson will mark it's Canadian release on November 15, 2025. Scored by Core composer JOSEPH MURRAY, Alberta Number One follows an eccentric documentary crew traversing Alberta to document its monuments, museums and roadside curios, as their vague project brief about exploring questions of cultural authority and identity gives way to unexpected reckonings with their own lives and relationships.

The Film premiered last year at Festival du nouveau cinéma in Montreal and went on to the Chicago International Film Festival.

Orchestra Tools Releases KORVEN - ACOUSTIC TEXTURES OF TERROR.

Core is absolutely honoured to share the news of Orchestral Tools' latest sample library release, KORVEN - ACOUSTIC TEXTURES OF TERROR.

Named “one of cinema's scariest composers” by Film Score Monthly, Mark Korven (The VVitch, The Lighthouse, The Black Phone) captures his vision in a vast, terrifying, and inspiring orchestra—for folk horror, primordial dread, tense underscoring, and any kind of music that creates unease and apprehension.

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SECRETS OF THE GREAT SALT LAKE ON IMAX

Narrated by Mike Rowe and scored by Core composer CATALIN MARIN, Secrets of the Great Salt Lake explores the unique ecosystem and history of Utah's Great Salt Lake; an uplifting story of how water connects all life on Earth. Now out on IMAX and Giant Screen Theatres.

Watch the trailer here.

And the winners of the 2025 CASMA, Best Original Song are...

Core composer STEPH COPELAND, Matthew O’Halloran & Kibra Tsegaye for ALPINE RHAPSODY. Song entitled “Trapped in the Spotlight”.

Now in its fourth year, the Canadian Screen Music Awards (CASMA) is an annual celebration of composer’s excellence in scoring original music for the screen.