Heidi Lucas

Biography

Heidi Lucas is associate professor of horn in the University of Delaware School of Music.

An active performer and educator, Lucas has extensive teaching and chamber music experience, including residencies and tours throughout the United States, England, Brazil, Germany, Austria, Australia, Russia and Panama. She is a founding member of Ternion Brass, the UD Faculty Brass Trio and Eastern Standard, a horn, tuba and piano trio. She also 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.

Lucas’ orchestral experience includes positions and substitute performances 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.

Her summer teaching and performance engagements have included the Charlottesville Opera Company in Virginia, Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan, Saarburger Serenaden Music Festival in Germany, Alfredo Saint Malo Festival in Panama and Shippensburg Summer Music Festival in Pennsylvania. Lucas also has performed at 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 and as the organization’s Delaware representative.

Lucas can be heard on recordings including New York Philomusica’s Haydn: L’isola Disabitata (2008); Keystone Winds’ The Music of Fisher Tull (2015); Centaur Records’ The Voice of the Coelecanth: Music of William Bergsma (2015); and Eastern Standard’s Eastern Standard (2015), Wanderlust (2018) and A Grand Day Out (2025). She also has been involved in commissioning or premiering more than 50 works featuring 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.