Stephan Moccio: Heal the Soul, Restore the Calm

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🗓️ 7 October 2020

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

This episode is a full circle moment. I met Stephan Moccio on the internet some years ago when I would often see him name in my social feeds. It was not long before I started paying attention to him and his work too. Come to find out he's a Grammy Award winning and Academy Award-nominated composer. He's written global hits for Céline Dion, The Weekend, Miley Cyrus and Seal. Now he's recently released his debut piano solo album, Tales of Solace.

Born in Canada, as a three year old, Moccio began his training in classical music at The Royal Conservatory of Music. Post signing a global deal with Universal Music, he moved his studio to Los Angeles, where he currently resides.

Intertwined in our conversation, Stephan plays his some pieces off his new album on his custom upright Yamaha piano. In creating the album he says, "I needed to recalibrate musically and personally. Solitude and quiet, in a noisy world, are elements I have been craving for a long time. Naturally, it made sense to engage in an intimate conversation between myself and the instrument which has been faithful to me my entire life. Strip it down... one person, in one room, with one instrument."

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0:00.0	You know when you listen to a song, any music, and it just like gets right to the heart of matter, it strikes a chord, a bump, double entendre fully intended.
0:19.7	You know, the hair's on your arm or the back of your neck
0:22.2	stand up a little bit. It takes you there. You're transported. That is how I feel when I listen
0:30.1	to the music of today's guest. Stefan Machio is a pianist that I met on the internet. This is a fantastic full
0:43.2	circle moment. I started seeing his name in my feed, gosh, probably eight or ten years ago.
0:51.2	And like I have swore up and down over and over. I wrote it in the book. I talk
0:58.0	about it incessantly online on this podcast. I saw his names in my feed so often that I started
1:03.6	paying attention to him and to his feeds. Come to find out he is a Grammy Award-winning Academy Award-nominated composer, songwriter, and producer.
1:16.3	He's written hits for the likes of Silly Dion, Ava Levine, Seale, Josh Grobin.
1:22.5	And I just started following this guy's music and loving it.
1:26.7	And at one point, he sent me a happy birthday
1:30.0	message, a song that he performed. And I was like, this is it. We got to have this guy on the show.
1:37.2	And we managed over the course of two or three years now to time his appearance on the show with his new album released, a debut solo
1:48.2	piano album, and I am a sucker for piano music. I love it. Um, and his new album is out now.
1:55.6	Tales of Solace. So this is a conversation about creativity, about entrepreneurship, about connection, loss,
2:03.7	about rebuilding.
2:05.8	And it's not just a conversation, it's performance as well because Stefan performs, I think
2:13.0	we probably got four or five tracks off his new album in this broadcast. And we co-mingled them. It's sort of
2:20.4	intertwined in what I think is a beautiful way. And I hope you will enjoy it. Again, super spirited
2:25.5	conversation. We talk a lot about music, obviously, but this is all relevant for any creator or
2:32.2	entrepreneur on your journey.
2:37.0	I'm gonna get out of the way because this is so good. I'm, I just listened to this song again before recording this intro here.
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