Members of Eastern Standard
Heidi Lucas, horn
Dr. Heidi Lucas, horn, is active as a performer and educator in a wide variety of settings. In addition to her
extensive teaching and chamber music experience including residencies and tours throughout the United
States, England, Brazil, Germany, Austria, Australia, Russia, and Panama, she is currently a member of Eastern
Standard, and performs regularly as a solo, chamber, and orchestral collaborator. Her orchestral experience
includes positions and/or subbing with the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, 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, Johnstown Symphony, Kennett Symphony, and Reading
Symphony. Summer teaching/performing engagements include positions with the Ash Lawn Opera Company
(Virginia), Wintergreen Festival, Blue Lake Fine ArtsCamp (Michigan), SaarburgerSerenadenMusic Festival
(Germany), the Alfredo Saint Malo Festival (Panama), and the International Fellowship of Conductors,
Composers, and Collaborators. Dr. Lucas has performed on programs and presented at many international
horn symposia and international tuba and euphonium conferences, as well as part of many regional horn
workshops, the Northeast Regional Tuba and Euphonium Conference(NERTEC) and the International Trombone
Festival (ITF), and the Society for Music Teacher Education (SMTE) Symposium. She has had several
publications, including reviews in theHorn Calland articles in theGrove Dictionary of American Music.In 2016,
Dr. Lucas was appointed editor of the “Books and Print Materials Reviews” column for the International Horn
Society’s publication, theHorn Call, a post she continues to hold.She also served as editor for the horn edition
of David Vining’sThe Big Book of Sight-Reading Duets(2015). An active advocate for new music, Dr. Lucas has
led or served on commissioning projects for over 50 works, including David Martynuik’s“Concerto for Horn
and Wind Ensemble”, which she premiered with the IUP Wind Ensemble in October of 2018, and subsequently
performed with the Eastern Wind Symphony at the 2019 Northeast Horn Workshop in February 2019, and as
part of their June 2019 concert at Princeton University. As a featured artist for the2020 Suffolk County Day of
Horn (Long Island, NY) and 2020 North Carolina Horn Day (UNCG, North Carolina),she recently premiered new
works for horn and piano written for her by Frank Gulino(“Tales Untold”) and Robert Litton (“Bavaria”). As a
member of Eastern Standard, she has commissioned, premiered, and recorded over 15 new works for this
genre—nearly doubling the size of the repertoire for this instrumentation. Dr. Lucas can be heard on
recordings with New York Philomusica-Haydn’sL’isolaDisabitata(2008), Keystone Winds’The Music of Fisher
Tull(2015), Centaur Records’The Voice of the Coelecanth: Music of William Bergsma(2015), Arts Laureate
Records’ Interplay (2017), Eastern Standards’Eastern Standard(2015), and Wanderlust (2019), 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).
Dr. Lucas currently serves as assistant professor of Brass and Music Education at the University of Delaware
and as associate professor of Horn at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and associate professor of Horn at
University of Southern Mississippi.
Zach Collins, tuba
Dr. Zach Collins is Professor of Tuba and Euphonium at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. At IUP Zach teaches
applied lessons to all tuba and euphonium majors, leads the IUP TubaphoniumEnsemble and teaches classes in
music technology. Zach performs with the HoodlebugBrass Quintet (IUP's faculty brass quintet), Eastern
Standard, Keystone Wind Ensemble, Keystone Chamber Winds, and the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra. In
2015 Zach was awarded the Distinguished Faculty Award for Creative Arts by Indiana University of
Pennsylvania. In 2014 he was named a National Arts Associate by Sigma Alpha Iota music fraternity. In addition
to his position at IUP, Zach also maintains a busy solo and chamber schedule. He has performed as a soloist at
the International Tuba and Euphonium Conference (2008, 2010, 2014, 2016), Northeast Regional Tuba
Euphonium Conference (2011, 2013, 2015), U.S. Army Band Tuba-Euphonium Conference (2010), Western
PASSHE Low Brass Consortium (2010), and Marshall University Tuba Day (2010). Recent solo and chamber
engagements have taken him to Ohio, West Virginia, Washington D.C., New York, Texas, and Moscow, Russia.
His interpretation of William Kraft's Encounters II for Solo Tuba was released on Cambria Master Recordings in
August 2009. Zach has written a number ofworks for brass instruments. His compositions and arrangements
for tuba and euphonium can be purchased from Cimarron Music and Eighth Note Publications. Beginning in the
summer of 2015 he began publishing a series of duets with scrolling music notation to YouTube. They can be
found on the Bass Clef Duets webpage.