Assistant Professor
Horn
Contact
Cogswell 311
Heidi.Lucas@iup.edu
724-357-4814
Courses
Applied Horn
Music History I
Introduction to Music
Degrees
DMA, University of Georgia
MM, Eastman School of Music
BM, Crane School of Music–SUNY Potsdam
Biography
Heidi Lucas is assistant professor of Horn at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where she works with applied horn students, leads the IUP Horn Choir,
and teaches a variety of courses, including Professional Practices, a course
she designed to include elements necessary to help students succeed in their
careers after college.
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 currently a member of Eastern Standard, the
Crosswinds Woodwind Quintet, and the Blenheim Brass Trio. Her orchestral
experience includes positions and/or subbing with the Louisiana Philharmonic,
Memphis Symphony, Aspen Festival Orchestra, Cobb Symphony Orchestra, Columbus
(Georgia) Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Pops Orchestra, Pensacola Symphony, Gulf
Coast Symphony, Meridian Symphony, Pensacola Opera Orchestra, Mobile Opera
Orchestra, Mobile Symphony, Mississippi Symphony, Lancaster Philharmonic,
Pennsylvania Philharmonic, Altoona Symphony, and Johnstown Symphony.
Summer teaching/performing engagements include positions with the Ash Lawn
Opera Company (Virginia), Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp (Michigan), Saarburger
Serenaden Music Festival (Germany), the Alfredo Saint Malo Festival (Panama),
and the International Fellowship of Conductors, Composers, and Collaborators. Lucas has performed on programs at several international horn
symposia and international tuba and euphonium conferences, as well as part of
many regional horn workshops and at the Northeast Regional Tuba and Euphonium
Conference. She has had several publications, including reviews in the Horn Call and articles in the Grove Dictionary of American Music. Recently, Lucas was appointed editor of
the “Books and Print Materials Reviews” column for the International Horn
Society’s publication, the Horn Call.
She also served as editor for the horn edition of David Vining’s The Big Book of Sight-Reading Duets
(2015).
Lucas can be heard on recordings with New York Philomusica-Haydn’s L’isola Disabitata (2008),
Keystone Winds’ The Music of Fisher Tull
(2015), Centaur Records’ The Voice of the
Coelecanth: Music of William Bergsma (2015), Eastern Standards’Eastern Standard (2015), as well as with
the Trade Winds Recording Ensemble, which records the wind band catalogs for
Carl Fischer Publications. She holds degrees from the Crane School of
Music-SUNY Potsdam (BM), the Eastman School of Music (MM), and the University
of Georgia (DMA). Lucas has also served on the faculty of the University
of Southern Mississippi.
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