- Feel More Radio with Stephan Moccio on Apple Music
- Listen to Feel More Radio with Stephan Moccio on Apple Music.
I usually listen to Apple Music Radio. My favorite channel is Chill. Because it introduces many new songs, my playlist is generally different. Sometimes, I find some amazing songs. This is Apple Music's positive function. I love this moment from the early Apple Music era. Over 10 years, I have enjoyed Apple Music and have continued using this platform. Nowadays, the service also includes Apple Classics, featuring an amazing archive and an easy user interface.
Today, my new experience: Apple Music Chill: Stephan Moccio
introduces songs, a personal episode for each song, including his pieces.
Feel More Radio with Stephan Moccio
Who is Stephan Moccio?
Stephan Moccio is a Canadian composer, producer, pianist, arranger, conductor and recording artist.[1] He co-wrote and co-produced the two end credit songs for Fifty Shades of Grey and its soundtrack: "Earned It" (The Weeknd) and "I Know You" (Skylar Grey), with the former being nominated for Best R&B Song and Best Song Written For Visual Media at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards,[2] and Best Original Song at the 88th Academy Awards.[3] He also was a producer on the Weeknd's album Beauty Behind the Madness, which was nominated for Album Of The Year at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards.[2]
Moccio co-wrote Celine Dion's hit "A New Day Has Come" with Aldo Nova, which reached and held the number one spot on the Billboard AC Chart for a record-breaking 21 weeks. He also co-wrote Miley Cyrus' single "Wrecking Ball" from her 2013 studio album Bangerz. For the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, Moccio co-wrote the theme song “I Believe” performed by Nikki Yanofsky.
He has collaborated with a diverse roster of artists including Avril Lavigne and Andrea Bocelli as a songwriter, musician and producer.
And I recently found a very interesting conductor.
Maria Seletskaja
She is a very unique experience.
When I first encountered Maria Seletskaja, at Paavo Järvi’s Pärnu Music Festival in 2019, she was still in full time employment as a ballerina with Royal Ballet Flanders. She’s now the English National Ballet’s new Music Director. That’s quite some journey.
- Maria Seletskaja: swapping pointe shoes for a baton
- In one of the most incredible career journeys, Maria Seletskaja talks about her move from full time ballerina with Royal Ballet Flanders to becoming English National Ballet’s new Music Director.
“I remember during my first season at Estonian National Ballet,” Seletskaja tells me, “I was injured and so miserable. It was Nutcracker time and I was not able to participate. But the music was still there and I recall speaking to one of the violinists in the corridor, saying I would give two years of my life to conduct Nutcracker just once.
We reminisce about her time at the Järvi Conducting Academy. “I am immensely grateful to Paavo Järvi. He and Maestro Tuggle are the two people to whom I owe my profession. I later asked Paavo why he invited me because when I watch videos from that time, I was nothing. And he said ‘I saw the potential, I’m not looking for the finished product’. There were people from the Sibelius Academy, from Juilliard – this was prior to me doing the degree, when I was still dancing full-time. I took everything in and then unpacked it at home, processing it over the next year. It wasn’t so much the conducting, it was attending his rehearsals. This is my advantage as a dancer: I can close my eyes and picture him conducting a piece. I have this body language memory. I can copy, if I need to – you can learn so much from watching Paavo’s conducting – it’s impeccable technically but also impeccable in taste and musicality.
