Matteo Zingales
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Biography
Born in Rome
Rome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
and raised in Sydney, Zingales graduated in 2004 from the Australian Film, Television and Radio School with a Masters in Screen Composition.
He has worked across the entire spectrum of original music platforms. His television credits include the music for over 200 episodes of the international hit series All Saints
All Saints
All Saints' Day , often shortened to All Saints, is a solemnity celebrated on 1 November by parts of Western Christianity, and on the first Sunday after Pentecost in Eastern Christianity, in honour of all the saints, known and unknown...
(2004-2009), broadcast in fifteen countries, and for all 22 episodes of the first series of Winners & Losers
Winners & Losers
Winners & Losers is a Australian television drama series first broadcast on the Seven Network on 22 March 2011. It was created by the producers of Packed to the Rafters and is aired in the show's former time slot...
(2011), broadcast in four countries.
He has composed the music for several feature films, most recently collaborating on The Hunter
The Hunter
The Hunter is a crime thriller novel, written by Donald E. Westlake under the pseudonym Richard Stark. It was the basis for three feature films, John Boorman's Point Blank , which starred Lee Marvin, Ringo Lam's Full Contact , which starred Chow Yun-fat, and Payback which starred Mel Gibson...
(2011), starring Willem Dafoe
Willem Dafoe
Willem Dafoe is an American film, stage, and voice actor, and a founding member of the experimental theatre company The Wooster Group...
and Sam Neill
Sam Neill
Nigel John Dermot "Sam" Neill, DCNZM, OBE is a New Zealand actor. He is well known for his starring role as paleontologist Dr Alan Grant in Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park III....
, and for short films, most notably Blue Poles (2004), starring Sam Worthington
Sam Worthington
Samuel Henry J. "Sam" Worthington is an English born, Australian actor. After almost a decade of roles in Australian TV shows and films, Worthington gained Hollywood's attention by playing Marcus Wright in Terminator Salvation and the lead role, Jake Sully, in James Cameron's science...
. His documentary credits include Lachlan Macquarie: The Father of Australia (2011) for BBC Scotland
BBC Scotland
BBC Scotland is a constituent part of the British Broadcasting Corporation, the publicly-funded broadcaster of the United Kingdom. It is, in effect, the national broadcaster for Scotland, having a considerable amount of autonomy from the BBC's London headquarters, and is run by the BBC Trust, who...
and The History Channel
The History Channel
History, formerly known as The History Channel, is an American-based international satellite and cable TV channel that broadcasts a variety of reality shows and documentary programs including those of fictional and non-fictional historical content, together with speculation about the future.-...
, and he has composed music for a multitude of television advertisements.
He has cited Thomas Newman
Thomas Newman
Thomas Montgomery Newman is an American composer and conductor, best known for his many film scores. He is one of the more respected and recognized composers for modern film and has scored over fifty feature films in a career which spans nearly three decades.Newman has received a total of ten...
, John Barry
John Barry (composer)
John Barry Prendergast, OBE was an English conductor and composer of film music. He is best known for composing the soundtracks for 12 of the James Bond films between 1962 and 1987...
and Arvo Pärt
Arvo Pärt
Arvo Pärt is an Estonian classical composer and one of the most prominent living composers of sacred music. Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that employs his self-made compositional technique, tintinnabuli. His music also finds its inspiration and influence from...
as his most important musical influences.
In 2008 the Sydney Morning Heralds Sydney Magazine included him as one of Australia’s top thirteen ‘new talents breaking ground in their chosen fields.’
He is a co-founder and director of the award-winning music collective Sonar Music.
Awards & Nominations
Zingales has been nominated a number of times for APRA AwardsAPRA Awards
The APRA Music Awards are several award ceremonies run in Australia and New Zealand by Australasian Performing Right Association to recognise songwriting skills, sales and airplay performance by its members annually....
for Screen Music, including in 2005 and 2007 for Best Music for a Television Series (All Saints
All Saints
All Saints' Day , often shortened to All Saints, is a solemnity celebrated on 1 November by parts of Western Christianity, and on the first Sunday after Pentecost in Eastern Christianity, in honour of all the saints, known and unknown...
), and in 2007 for Best Music for an Advertisement (Ears Vs Eyes). He won his first APRA Award in 2011 for Best Music for a Documentary (Lachlan Macquarie: The Father of Australia). In late 2011 his work on The Hunter
The Hunter
The Hunter is a crime thriller novel, written by Donald E. Westlake under the pseudonym Richard Stark. It was the basis for three feature films, John Boorman's Point Blank , which starred Lee Marvin, Ringo Lam's Full Contact , which starred Chow Yun-fat, and Payback which starred Mel Gibson...
earned him a nomination for the AACTA Award for Best Original Score for a Feature Film.