Toronto-based cellist Lucia Ticho enjoys an active career as a performer and teacher. She is currently a member of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra, and she has played with the Houston Symphony, the St. Louis Symphony, and the Classical Tahoe Orchestra. She has appeared as a soloist with the Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra, the Elgin Symphony, the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra, and other ensembles in the Chicagoland area, where she was born and raised.

As a chamber musician, Lucia has played with the Houston DACAMERA and at music festivals around the United States, collaborating with artists like violinist Stefan Jackiw, singer-songwriter Ben Folds, and dancer Lil Buck. She is an advocate and enthusiast for new music, having performed with the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, AXIOM, Loop38, the New Juilliard Ensemble, and the Shepherd School Contemporary Ensemble. She commissioned a solo cello work from American composer Kim Diehnelt in 2015.

Lucia is a dedicated teacher, and her students have been accepted to competitive pre-college and college programs at the Manhattan School of Music, the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, and the University of Cincinnati College-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 school workshops across the Houston metropolitan area in 2021.

Lucia attended Columbia University (Bachelor of Arts, 2020), The Juilliard School (Master of Music, 2021), and Rice University. Her mentors have included Richard Aaron, Tanya Carey, Timothy Eddy, and Brinton Smith. She is an alumna of the Aspen Music Festival, the Bowdoin International Music Festival, the National Youth Orchestra, the New York String Orchestra Seminar, the Orford Music Academy, and the Sarasota Music Festival.