Cellist Lucia Ticho enjoys an active career as a performer and teacher.
She is a member of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra, and she has also played with the Houston Symphony, the St. Louis Symphony, and the Classical Tahoe Orchestra. Her solo engagements include concerti with the Brampton Rose Orchestra (Toronto, Canada), the Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra (Houston, USA), the Elgin Symphony (Chicago, USA), the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra, and other ensembles in the Chicago metropolitan area, where she was born and raised.
As a chamber musician, Lucia works regularly with the Toronto and Boston-based Bedford Piano Trio. She appears at chamber festivals across North America, including Houston’s award-winning DACAMERA, Chamber Music @ New Park (Ithaca, USA), and Music Around the Corner (Toronto). She has collaborated with artists as diverse as violinist Stefan Jackiw, singer-songwriter Ben Folds, and dancer Lil Buck.
An advocate and enthusiast for new music, Lucia has performed with the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble (Aspen, USA), AXIOM (New York, USA), Loop38 (Houston), the New Juilliard Ensemble (New York), and the Shepherd School Contemporary Ensemble (Houston). She commissioned a work for solo cello by American composer Kim Diehnelt in 2015.
Lucia is a dedicated teacher, and her students have been accepted to competitive programs at the University of Toronto, the Manhattan School of Music, the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. She coached the Toronto Youth Symphony Orchestra during the 2024/25 season and has served as a guest clinician for the University of Toronto and the Taylor Academy at the Royal Conservatory of Music. She is a certified instructor in the Suzuki method and is committed to expanding music education in K-12 classrooms, having taught over 50 workshops across the Houston Independent School District in 2021.
Lucia attended Columbia University (Bachelor of Arts, 2020), The Juilliard School (Master of Music, 2021), and Rice University. Her primary mentors were Richard Aaron, Tanya Carey, Timothy Eddy, and Brinton Smith. She is an alumna of the Aspen Music Festival, the Bowdoin Music Festival, the National Youth Orchestra of the United States, the New York String Orchestra Seminar, the Orford Music Academy, and the Sarasota Music Festival.