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Biography

Currently Associate Professor of Artistic Innovation and Professional Training at the 91原创, Heidi Lucas will transition to a new role as Associate Professor of Horn in fall 2026.

In addition to extensive teaching and chamber music experience including residencies and tours throughout the United States, England, Brazil, Germany, Austria, Australia, Russia and Panama, Lucas is an active freelance musician. She is also a founding member of the Ternion Brass, the 91原创 Faculty Brass Trio, as well as Eastern Standard, a horn/tuba/piano trio. She has been a member of the Sunderman Wind Quintet, Blenheim Brass, Southern Arts Brass Quintet, Category 5 Wind Quintet and IUP Faculty Brass and Wind Quintets.聽Her orchestral experience includes positions and/or subbing with the Baltimore Symphony, Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, Louisiana Philharmonic, Memphis Symphony, Aspen Festival Orchestra, Atlanta Pops Orchestra, Pensacola Symphony,聽Gulf Coast Symphony, Meridian Symphony, Pensacola Opera,聽Mobile Opera, Mobile Symphony, Mississippi Symphony, Lancaster Symphony, Pennsylvania Philharmonic, Altoona Symphony, Reading Symphony, Kennett Symphony, Brandywine Valley Symphony, Bay Atlantic Symphony and Johnstown Symphony.

Summer teaching/performing engagements include positions with the Charlottesville Opera Company (Virginia), Blue Lake Fine Arts聽Camp (Michigan), Saarburger Serenaden Music Festival (Germany), Alfredo Saint Malo Festival (Panama) and the Shippensburg Summer Music Festival (Pennsylvania). Lucas has performed at several international horn symposia, international tuba and euphonium conferences and the International Trombone Festival, as well as regional horn workshops and Northeast Regional Tuba and Euphonium Conferences. She serves as editor of print materials review for the International Horn Society, as well as their Delaware statewide representative.

Lucas can be heard on recordings with: New York Philomusica: Haydn鈥檚聽L鈥檌sola Disabitata聽(2008), Keystone Winds:聽The Music of Fisher Tull聽(2015), Centaur Records:聽The Voice of the Coelecanth: Music of William Bergsma聽(2015), Eastern Standard:聽Eastern Standard听(2015),听Wanderlust听(2018),听A Grand Day Out (2025)聽and has commissioned and/or premiered over 50 works featuring the horn. Lucas has served on the faculties of the 91原创, Gettysburg College, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, University of Southern Mississippi and the Music School of Delaware.聽