The debut symphony highlights the immigrant’s creative voice and experience

The Irving Symphony Orchestra and jazz violinist Scott Tixier are preparing for the debut performance of Tixier’s Immigrant Symphony.

“Let’s look at the Immigrant Symphony,” music director and maestro of the Irving Symphony Orchestra, Hector Guzman, told the orchestra at the “first reading” Thursday night. “Ladies and gentlemen, would you please welcome our lead singer Scott Tixier? This is his work, and this is the story of his life.”

“Through the Immigrant Symphony, I’m trying to show people that immigration is not a number, it’s not a statistic. These are people,” Tiksier said. “We all have our own version of being an immigrant.”

Tixier grew up in the suburbs of Paris, France and moved to New York when he was 19 years old.

“I didn’t speak much, I didn’t speak English at all,” Tiksier said.

But he was fluent in the language of music.

“Musical culture is a culture in itself. It does not depend on the country you come from, or even on your ethnicity. Everything connected with music, as it were, erases all boundaries, ”he said.

His multimedia symphony is a fusion of jazz and classical, both cinematic and intimate. It includes voices from Tiksier’s past; his grandparents, who were also immigrants, tutored and schooled his childhood outside of Paris.

Tixier moved to the US with no plans other than to play music and study. Always learn.

“It took many, many years of starvation and the worst situation, when I could not eat, I could not even afford to ride the subway,” Tiksier recalled. “If you really feel like that’s what makes you feel alive, you never give up.”

Tixier built a career on improvisation. He has five Grammy certificates for his work with Hans Zimmer, John Legend and others. He is also a professor of jazz strings at the University of North Texas.

“When I moved here to America, I had no idea that I would even be doing 10% of what I do today,” Thixier said. “There’s something here in America that really allows artists to create and make their dreams come true.”

One of Tixier’s violin students, Joseph Reding, worked with him on the orchestration of the Immigrant’s Symphony.

“My goal is to try to describe the journey of a person who came from another country to a new country with new roots,” Tiksier said. “How do you get home when you leave your house? Where is home…that’s what this article is about.”

The Immigrant Symphony will debut at Carpenter Hall at the Irving Arts Center on Saturday, February 11 at 7:30 pm. As of Friday evening, there are still a few tickets available.

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