Lucia Ticho leads a dynamic career as a performer and teacher. She is a member of the cello section of Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra, and the cellist of the Toronto-based Bedford Piano Trio. Lucia has performed with the Santa Fe Opera, 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 complements her work with the Bedford Trio with guest appearances at festivals and concert series across North America, including Houston’s award-winning DACAMERA, Chamber Music @ New Park (Ithaca, USA), the Gibson Classical Concert Series (Toronto), 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, and, since moving to Toronto, has enjoyed establishing relationships with Canadian composers. With the Bedford Trio, she has headlined concerts at the University of Toronto New Music Festival and premiered many new piano trio works through the ensemble’s annual IMMERSED series.
 
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 throughout their 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.
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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.