Lucia Magney
Biography
Lucia Magney is Assistant Principal Cellist of the Duluth-Superior Symphony Orchestra and the Minneapolis Pops Orchestra. She is a dedicated teacher, maintaining a large private studio in addition to her work as Instructor of Low Strings at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University, where she has been a faculty member since 1990. Lucia attended the Bernard Greenhouse Celebration in Greensboro, NC in 2005 and the Midori Community Engagement Seminar at USC in 2007 in support of her work as an artist/teacher. She is a busy chamber musician, performing regularly with Music Saint Croix, Pentimento and Trio Benedicta. Her string quartet Pentimento has appeared in Theatre de la Jeune Lune's productions of Mozart's Don Juan Giovanni, Figaro, The Magic Flute and Cosi fan Tutti and recorded incidental music for the Guthrie Theater's spring 2007 production of Merchant of Venice. In August 2007 Pentimento joined the Highland String Quartet in a performance of the Mendelssohn Octet at the Sieur Du Luth Summer Music Festival at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. Lucia holds degrees from the University of Minnesota and Manhattan School of Music where she was a student of Bernard Greenhouse.