Matteo Zingales

Matteo Zingales is one of Australia's most in-demand and multi award-winning composers of film, documentary and TV. His exacting and intuitive sense for creating the right music for stories underpins his high regard in the industry. A consistent award winner, Zingales has five Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards for Best Original Music Score for film, TV and documentary, as well as numerous Screen Music Awards for Feature Film Score Film of the Year, Best Television Theme, Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie, and Best Music for a Documentary. ASCAP (American Society of Composers) awarded him their Top Television Score.

Film credits include 99 Homes (Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC) Winner Feature Film Score of the Year 2017), The Hunter (ACCTA Award for Best Original Music Score 2012 + Film Critics Circle Award for Best Original Music 2012), Not Suitable for Children (AACTA Award for Best Original Music Score 2013), HBO feature film Fahrenheit 451 (APRA/AGSC Nominee, Feature Film Score 2018), which premiered at the Cannes International Film Festival, and I Met A Girl which was released on Netflix in 2021.

Recent work includes two seasons of the critically acclaimed ABC original series Mystery Road (AACTA Award for Best Original Music Score 2018 + APRA/AGSC Screen Music Award for Best Music for a Mini-series or Telemovie 2018), two seasons of the ABC international series Total Control, feature documentary Machine, (APRA/AGSC Award for Best Music for a Documentary 2020), two seasons of the ABC series Harrow (APRA/AGSC Award for Best Television Theme, 2018), Paramount drama Five Bedrooms, and Netflix's smash-hit TV Series Tidelands.

Other projects include two seasons of the US ABC prime-time TV series Secrets and Lies (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) Award for Top Television Score 2016), the TV mini-series Wake in Fright and Showtime's The Kettering Incident, (both recipients of the AACTA Award for Best Original Music Score in Television 2017 and 2016), Foxtel's Australia Day and the documentary, A Fire Inside, released in 2021.

Zingales' musical influences are vast but include Arvo Part, Philip Glass and Ryuichi Sakamoto. Among the dozens of extraordinary film scores, Zingales mentions Thomas Newman's The Shawshank Redemption, John Barry's Dances with Wolves and Ennio Morricone's Once Upon a Time in the West.

Born in Rome, Zingales resides in Sydney, working both in Australia and with representation in LA with ICM Partners (International Creative Management). He is co-founder of the music collective Sonar Music based at Fox Studios Australia. He is married with two children.