Matteo Messori (born 23 April 1976, in Bologna, Italy) is an Italian keyboard player, conductor, musicologist, composer and teacher.
Matteo Messori was born in Bologna where he initially studied piano under the Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli pupil Franca Fogli and later organ and counterpoint with Umberto Pineschi, graduating cum laude.
He studied harpsichord with Sergio Vartolo at the conservatories of Mantua and Venice, graduating again cum laude.
In 2000 he founded an early music ensemble Cappella Augustana with which he is recording the complete works by Heinrich Schütz for the Dutch label Brilliant Classics.
Messori's extensive discography includes also several works by Johann Sebastian Bach: the third part of Clavierübung, the Schübler Chorales, 8 Preludes and Fugues, the Canonical Variations, Die Kunst der Fuge and Ein musikalisches Opfer (with his ensemble Cappella Augustana).