Matteo Messori was born in Bologna where he studied Organ and Counterpoint, graduating with the best of marks and the summa cum laude. He studied Harpischord under the harpsichordist, organist, conductor and singer Sergio Vartolo at the Conservatories of Mantua and Venice, graduating as well with the best of marks and the summa cum laude.
In addition, he studied Musicology at the University of his native city, Bologna.

He is active as a soloist of harpsichord and organ and as conductor in Italy, Europe and America and together with various chamber music ensembles.

In order to deepen the musical and cultural relationship between the Bel Paese and the northern musical world between the sixteenth and seventeenth century, Matteo Messori founded the ensemble "Cappella Augustana", which he is conducting in the first complete recording of Heinrich Schütz' works for the Dutch music label Brilliant Classics.
He also directed, for the Swedish label Mvsica Rediviva, the first sound tribute wholly dedicated to the sacred music by the Kapellmeister in Dresden and organist at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig, Vincenzo Albrici (1631-1690/96).

His recording of the third part of the Klavierübung by Johann Sebastian Bach on three historical Thuringian, Silesian and Saxon organs (one inaugurated by Bach himself) has gained the prize "5 de Diapason" in March 2008 from the French magazine Diapason. In June 2008 he recorded Die Kunst der Fuge, Musikalisches Opfer and the fragmentary Triple Fugue BWV 1080/19 by J. S. Bach, as a soloist on several harpsichords, also in Central German style, as well as a leader of the ensemble "Cappella Augustana". The recordings will be published in a 3-CDs box that will contain also the Canonical Variations, recorded on the Trost organ of Walthershausen, 1724.

He has conducted the State Chamber Orchestra of the Republic of Belarus at the Philharmonic Hall of Minsk and the first Italian stage performance of the Händel oratorio La Bellezza ravveduta staged by the French director Denis Krief for the Sagra Musicale Malatestiana in Rimini. Recently he has conducted his ensemble in the fourth 5 CDs-box recording of the Heinrich Schütz Edition which has taken place in South Silesia.

He is Professor of Organ and Counterpoint, Continuo and Historical Keyboard Instruments at the Bergamo Conservatory.