Matt Boden is one of Australia's most versatile and in-demand musician-practitioners, working across an exceptional range of creative roles: pianist, keyboardist, composer, orchestrator, arranger, and producer. His career spans jazz, classical, contemporary, screen music, electronic, neo-soul, hip-hop, ambient, and popular music, and encompasses work in the recording studio, the concert hall, the scoring stage, and the film set.

As a screen music practitioner, Boden has established himself as one of the most consistently employed orchestrators working in Australian film and television. His credits span more than a decade and include some of the most significant productions to have emerged from the Australian screen industry in recent years. In 2025 alone he served as orchestrator on three major international releases: Together (A24/Neon), which premiered in the Midnight section at the Sundance Film Festival; Bring Her Back (A24/Sony Pictures), starring Sally Hawkins and directed by the Philippou brothers; and The Survivors (Netflix), which reached number two on the Netflix global charts. In 2026 he worked on Beast (Lionsgate US/Rialto AU), starring and co-written by Russell Crowe. Earlier credits include Clickbait (Netflix Worldwide, 2021), Fires (ABC, 2021), Bosch and Rockit (2022), Surrogate (2022), Here Be Dragons (2022), Please Don't Feed the Children (Sitges Film Festival premiere, 2024), and Ancestry Road (2025), among others. Across all of these productions Boden has worked alongside Australia’s preeminent master orchestrator Mark Buys, and some of the most distinguished composers in the Australian screen industry, including Cornel Wilczek and Brian Cachia.

As a pianist and live performer, Boden commands a performance career of genuine international distinction. He has performed at major festivals and venues across Australia and the world, including the Melbourne International Jazz Festival, the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, the Wangaratta Festival of Jazz and Blues, MONA FOMA, Dark MOFO, the Paris Jazz Festival, the Jazz Pas Grave Festival (Paris), and the Ascona Jazz Festival (Switzerland). International venue appearances include Sunset/Sunside (Paris), A-Trane (Berlin), Caveau de la Huchette (Paris), and CJW (Shanghai). In Australia he has performed at Hamer Hall (Arts Centre Melbourne), the Melbourne Recital Centre, Bennetts Lane and its successor The JazzLab, The Paris Cat, and Salamanca Arts Centre, among many others. In October 2024 he performed as co-arranger, orchestrator, and pianist at Hamer Hall as part of the Melbourne International Jazz Festival, presenting an original ten-work suite of Antônio Carlos Jobim arrangements for Panorama Brasil and Orchestra Victoria under conductor Jessica Gethin. The concert received a four-and-a-half-star review from Limelight magazine.

Boden is the pianist of Panorama Brasil, Australia's foremost Brazilian music ensemble, led by drummer and percussionist Alastair Kerr. In this capacity he has performed at the Melbourne Recital Centre, The JazzLab, and major festivals, presenting programs spanning the music of Antônio Carlos Jobim, Milton Nascimento, Lo Borges, Hermeto Pascoal, Baden Powell, and Vinicius de Moraes, frequently alongside distinguished guest artists including vocalist Alda Rezende, guitarist Doug de Vries, pianist Barney McAll, and guitarist Rose M. Gonzalez.

His broader performance and recording career has brought him into collaboration with an extraordinary range of artists, including Brian Jackson (USA), Eddie 'Boogieman' Kirkland (USA), Vince Jones, Meow Meow, Jherek Bischoff (USA), and many others. He appears on dozens of recordings across multiple genres and has contributed as pianist to albums including Aerogramme (John Scurry's Reverse Swing, Lionsharecords, 2024), Let the Light In (Damien Kingston Quartet, Made Now Music, 2025), Cross Street (Leigh Barker, Barking Mad Music, 2025). He has also performed as session keyboardist in live contexts ranging from jazz festival concert halls to major rock festivals, most recently appearing with Hobart neo-soul ensemble Tai Harlii at the inaugural Lutruwita Live festival at The Goods Shed in December 2025, on a bill headlined by Wolfmother.

For further information and credits, please visit mattboden.com, IMDb, and Play Pause Record.