Matteo Zingales is one of Australia’s most awarded film composers.

He has an exacting and intuitive sense for creating highly original and evocative scores.

Matteo’s feature film credits include Russell Crowe’s Poker Face, 99 Homes (AGSC Winner Feature Film Score of the Year 2017), I Met A Girl, Machine (AGSC Award for Best Music for a Documentary 2020), A Fire Inside, The Lost Aviator, The Hunter (ACCTA Award for Best Original Music Score 2012 + Film Critics Circle Award for Best Original Music 2012) and Not Suitable for Children (AACTA Award for Best Original Music Score 2013).

He has also worked extensively across highly awarded TV Series including Netflix’s Wellmania (starring Celeste Barber), BUMP, In Limbo, Total Control S1-2, Mystery Road S1-2 (AACTA Award for Best Original Music Score 2018 + AGSC Screen Music Award for Best Music for a Mini-series or Telemovie 2018), The Kettering Incident, Tidelands, Harrow S1-3 and Five Bedrooms S1-4.

Other notable projects include Wake in Fright (recipient of the AACTA Award for Best Original Music Score in Television) ABC’s original TV Mini-Series Significant Others and In Limbo (AACTA Award for Best Original Score in Television Nominee) and Foxtel’s feature film Australia Day.

Internationally, Matteo scored the US ABC prime-time TV series Secrets and Lies and the HBO Feature Film Fahrenheit 451 which premiered at the Cannes International Film Festival.

Matteo has worked across Australia’s most premier networks such as STAN and Foxtel, as well as internationally working for ABC US, Netflix, Disney and Amazon Prime.

He has just come off the back of scoring Lee Tamahori’s highly anticipated and award winning feature film The Convert, and has just completed composing STAN’s Sunny Nights which is set fore release in December this year. His most recent film project fro STUDIO KANAL Kangaroo has been named Australia’s highest grossing film of 2025.

Matteo is a co-founder and director of Sonar Music based in Sydney, Australia.