Matteo Zingales

Matteo Zingales (Italian pronunciation: [matˈtɛːo dziŋˈɡaːles]; born 28 October 1980) is an Australian film music composer who has won the AACTA Award for Best Original Score for a Feature Film for two years running . In 2013, he shared the award with Jono Ma (of rock band Jagwar Ma) for Best Score for Not Suitable for Children (2012), and in 2012, Zingales, Michael Lira and Andrew Lancaster shared the award for Best Score for The Hunter (2011).

Matteo Zingales was born on 28 October 1980 in Rome and raised in Sydney. He graduated in 2004 from the Australian Film, Television and Radio School with a Masters in Screen Composition. Zingales has cited Thomas Newman, John Barry and Arvo Pärt as his most important musical influences. "When I was nine," he recalls, "I adored movies. I wanted to be a director and then I realised what actually moved me was the music. I just used to sit down at the piano and write".

He has worked across a variety of music platforms. His television credits include the music for over 200 episodes of the series, All Saints (2004–2009), broadcast in fifteen countries, and for all 22 episodes of the first series of Winners & Losers (2011), broadcast in four countries.

He has composed the music for feature films, including collaborating on The Hunter (2011), which starred Willem Dafoe and Sam Neill, and on Not Suitable for Children (2012), which was directed by Peter Templeman and starred Ryan Kwanten (True Blood) and Sarah Snook; for television mini-series including the ABC's Devil's Dust (2012), one of the six parts of the ABC's Redfern Now (2012), and SBS's Better Man (2013); and for short films, such as Blue Poles (2004), starring Sam Worthington. His documentary credits include Lachlan Macquarie: The Father of Australia (2011) for BBC Scotland and The History Channel; and he has composed music for television advertisements.

In February 2008 the Sydney Morning Herald's Mark Chipperfield included Zingales as one of Australia’s top thirteen "new talents breaking ground in their chosen fields".

He is a co-founder and director of Sonar Music.

In January 2012 Matteo Zingales, Michael Lira and Andrew Lancaster shared the AACTA Award for 'Best Original Score for a Feature Film' for The Hunter (2011). In January 2013, Zingales won this award again, this time in collaboration with Jono Ma, for Not Suitable for Children.

He has been nominated a number of times for APRA Awards for Screen Music, including in 2005 and 2007 for Best Music for a Television Series (All Saints), and in 2007 for Best Music for an Advertisement (Ears Vs Eyes). At the APRA Music Awards of 2011 he won the Best Music for a Documentary category for Lachlan Macquarie: The Father of Australia. In 2012 he was again nominated, this time in the Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie category, for Dripping in Chocolate.

He was nominated for the 2013 Best Music Score by the Film Critics Circle of Australia for Not Suitable for Children and for the 2012 Screen Music Awards: Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie for Dripping in Chocolate.