Heidi Lucas

Biography

Currently Associate Professor of Artistic Innovation and Professional Training at the University of Delaware, 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 UD 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. 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, Gulf Coast Symphony, Meridian Symphony, Pensacola Opera, 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 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’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 Standard: Eastern Standard (2015), Wanderlust (2018), A Grand Day Out (2025) and has commissioned and/or premiered over 50 works featuring the horn. Lucas has served on the faculties of the University of Delaware, Gettysburg College, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, University of Southern Mississippi and the Music School of Delaware.