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Born in San Sebastián de los Reyes, Aragua state, an hour and a half from Caracas, the Venezuelan cellist of the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra (OFJ), Jean Carlos José Coronado Cabrices, began his musical training when he was very young, “at the age of five. age, within the System of Youth and Children's Orchestras of Venezuela, first in choirs, then recorder, until I had the height to play the instrument”, he shares in an interview with EL INFORMADOR.

But his initial contact with music was through an uncle of his, an "empirical" musician, says the instrumentalist, "who studied double bass, played violin, guitar, sang, directed a choir and made us listen to music as children"; now, formed within the famous System of Orchestras that from his country has garnered fame and replicas in other nations (such as Mexico), Coronado was called to “teach classes” since he was a child.

Teaching and training

Thus, instructed in “the ideology” of a system where it is maintained that, says the musician, “those who half know teach those who know nothing; so I taught things that I knew and, at the same time, they taught me too. There were teachers who gave classes, left homework and left. And while I was climbing in my training, at the same time I was leaving it in my students. We were like on an ascending ladder. An example of this is my current partner in the OFJ, Ángel Hernández, in his first class he was 11 years old and I was 15 years old; and now we play together”.

Thus, "all of us who were trained in the system have that", continues Coronado, "we had to teach to continue, teaching is what made us continue to grow, and when children perceive that in a teacher, if this in his circle, he He gets everything you give him."

battalion to be formed

In our country, the Venezuelan cellist highlights, “I have my battalion; because I love to teach. And I am creating an academy in León, Guanajuato, through the Renaissance Academy directed by Enrique Rico, who gives me the opportunity to offer first-hand the teachings of the system. This was almost at the start of the pandemic, in 2020. And I have extremely talented students, because if Mexico has something, it is that it is full of incredible talents.”

With the probable name of Academia de Violoncello Trinitate -because where it is located was a railway station with that name- this school is about to be founded "and I already have students, among them Luna Corina, Valentina Corona, in short, there are many"; and today they are preparing to participate in the call to form the Children's Symphony Orchestra of Mexico 2022.

own tour

Coronado studied in Venezuela at the Latin American Cello Academy, with Carlos Cobo and Andrés Herrera; and also with whom he was the first cello of the Simón Bolívar Symphony for more than 40 years, William Molina Cestari, with whom he continues to train. Now, in Mexico, he completed a degree at the Center for Musical Studies in Querétaro and, later, international preparatory courses in Canada and Europe, with teachers such as Amit Peled, Maria Kliegel, Gary Hoffman, Philippe Müller or Ralph Wallfisch, "all of them first class. level, some of which have come to Mexico”, establishes the performer.

In these terms, he has been living in our country for some time, the cellist assures that “I came for a year and I have been seven; and I think I'm not going to leave because I love it, and I've been able to take part in national and international festivals here in Mexico, and I've been doing a lot of musical activity, and giving classes to children, youth and adults”.

limitless contagion

Coronado feels “full, because I continue to grow and study; but I have set myself the goal that everyone, at least the cellists, know that there are no limits. I do that with children because, despite what you may think, they have no limit; if they give them a difficult concert, without telling them that it is, they do it. The idea is to show whoever they can that they have no limits and are the future of the country; I have been questioned before about my teaching method but, for 20 years, I have tested it and it does not fail, I am not inventing anything”.

The cellist concludes: “My dedication as a teacher is knowing how to guide them and never take away that dream and vision of what they want to do: play in an orchestra, travel the world. You just need the desire to do it and if I have that in my students, well, I say it's an army for a reason, because when they see that others do it they will want to do it too; it is a matter of contagion. There are no limits, there is vision and there are dreams; what happens is that sometimes we don't know how to guide them”, he concludes.