Matt Orenstein is a Los Angeles-based composer. He has scored several shorts, features, and trailers, and has written music for branded content from companies including Mercedes-Benz, Square, and DoorDash.

Films with Matt's scores have screened at several film festivals around the world, including Mostra São Paulo, Prix Videoformes (Paris), Chicago Independent Film Festival, Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Cinequest and SXSW. In 2022, he scored the Webby-nominated documentary short “Nearside: Pink Mahogany,” directed by Max Gold.

Matt got his start as a bass player in the relentlessly experimental Minneapolis music scene as an adolescent in the early 2000's, the spirit of which he carried with him to Oberlin, OH. While at Oberlin Conservatory, he studied bass with Peter Dominguez (and Eddie Gomez during Dominguez's sabbatical), studied electronic music and composition, and played in as many different kinds of ensembles as he could. He spent 2011 to 2015 in Chicago, where he worked as a teacher, composer, songwriter, sound designer, and instrumentalist.

Matt's work and performances have seen favorable coverage in several publications, including The New York Times, The LA Times, Entertainment Weekly, and the Allmusic Guide. He has worked with Four Larks, Laboratory Dancers (Chicago), Le Tour, Oberlin Dance Company, Fonema Consort, Jacaranda Music, High Concept Laboratories, Access Contemporary Music, Death & Pretzels, Sheet Ghosts, Naomi Greene, Lyris Quartet, Antonio Lysy, and several other artist and groups around the Minneapolis, Oberlin, Chicago, and Los Angeles areas.

Matt has toured the country several times under several different banners, including his longtime project Lionel O, which released six albums between 2006-15.