Mateo Messina is a Grammy winning composer who writes music for film, television, and the symphony. 

His signature sound can be found on many of today’s Oscar winning movies and independent film hits alike. The beauty of unfamiliar sounds becoming musical is one of Mateo’s unique and sought after talents. 

With his studio nestled between Universal & Warner Brothers in Toluca Lake, Mateo and his team deliver a unique style of film score. 

His style is curiously familiar and always interesting, his energy is limitless, and his creativity knows no bounds.

Also, since the age of 23, Mateo has written, produced, and premiered over 24 symphonies. Each premiere has been a benefit concert for Seattle Children’s Hospital. To date, he and his team have raised over $2,000,000 for these kids and their families. Mateo is an accomplished writer, a unique storyteller, a seasoned producer, a dependable man of his business, a dreamer & a doer, and one of Hollywood’s most innovative composers.

Mateo was born and raised in West Seattle by his Italian father, Benedito Messina and his Irish mother, Katherine Margaret Kelly, the daughter of Leo V. “Skipper” Kelly, from Butte, Mt. Skipper Kelly led a big band in the 40’s and 50’s but started out as a kid throwing bundles of newspapers off the back of the Butte-Anaconda Pacific railway. A railway he eventually led as President. Mateo’s family celebrates their Irish heritage and the Irish Heritage Club honors him as their 2024 Grand Marshal.