JANUARY 22-24, 2016
Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) \\ Indiana, Pennsylvania
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December 15, 2015.
Heidi Lucas and Jonas Thoms, hosts
Contact us: northeasthornworkshop2016@gmail.com
ACT 48
Credit Available!
The University is open this morning--roads are a little snowy, but have been plowed and the plows continue to run. Snow removal is vigorously underway on campus. The schedule will continue as planned. Announcements are posted on our Facebook page, and in the lobby and by the registration desk in Cogswell Hall.
About Your Hosts:
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Heidi Lucas, co-host
Dr. Heidi Lucas is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Horn at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She holds degrees from the Crane School of Music-SUNY Potsdam (B.M.), the Eastman School of Music (M.M), and the University of Georgia (D.M.A). Her orchestral experience includes the Louisiana Philharmonic, Memphis Symphony, Lancaster Philharmonic, Aspen Festival Orchestra, Cobb Symphony Orchestra, Columbus (GA) Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Pops Orchestra, Pensacola Symphony, Gulf Coast Symphony, Meridian Symphony, Pensacola Opera Orchestra, Mobile Opera Orchestra, and the Mobile Symphony, Altoona Symphony, and Johnstown Symphony. She is also principal horn of the Tradewinds, the recording ensemble for Carl Fischer’s wind band publications.
In addition to extensive teaching and chamber music experience including residencies and tours throughout the United States, England, Brazil, Germany, Austria, Australia, and Panama, Dr. Lucas is currently a member of the Hoodlebug Brass Quintet and IUP Faculty Wind Quintet, as well as Eastern Standard, the Crosswinds Woodwind Quintet, and the Blenheim Brass Trio. She is active in promoting new music and has been part of commissioning projects for over 25 new works that feature the horn. 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 (IFC3) in Oregon. Dr. Lucas has performed on programs at the Northeast Regional Tuba and Euphonium Conference in Ithaca in April of 2015, 2015 International Horn Symposium in Los Angeles, 2014 International Horn Symposium in London, England, 2014 International Tuba/Euphonium Conference (ITEC) in Bloomington, IN, 2013 International Horn Symposium in Memphis, TN, 2012 International Tuba/Euphonium Conference (ITEC) in Linz, Austria, 2012 International Horn Symposium in Denton, TX, and the 2012 Mid-South Horn Workshop in Conway, AR, as well as part of several Southeast Horn Workshops. She has had several publications, including reviews in the Horn Call and articles in the Grove Dictionary of American Music. Dr. Lucas can be heard on the New York Philomusica’s 2008 recording of Haydn’s L’isola Disabitata, the Keystone Winds’ upcoming album of the works of Fisher Tull, Centaur Records’ The Voice of the Coelecanth: Music of William Bergsma, which was released in February of 2015, as well as Eastern Standard’s upcoming album and YouTube videos featuring works for horn, tuba, and piano (to be released in the Fall of 2015).
Jonas Thoms, co-host
Jonas Thoms is Instructor of Horn at Wright State University where he teaches applied horn, brass chamber music, and courses in music theory, music history, and music education. He performs in the resident faculty woodwind and brass quintets and with the WSU Chamber Orchestra. He has presented and performed at colleges throughout the country, including the University of Cincinnati-College Conservatory, Ball State University, the University of Alabama, the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, and the University of Southern Mississippi, and is a frequent guest artist and clinician at high schools in the region. Thoms has published articles in the Triad, presented at the International Horn Symposium, and reviewed textbooks for W.W. Norton & Co. and Oxford University Press. Prior to WSU, he was on faculty at the University of Evansville and served as Principal Horn of the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra.
Currently a member of the Springfield Symphony Orchestra and Kentucky Symphony Orchestra, Thoms has previously held positions in the Richmond (IN) Symphony Orchestra, Owensboro Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Kentucky-Bowling Green, and Glens Falls Symphony Orchestra. He regularly performs as a substitute or extra player with the Cincinnati Symphony and Pops Orchestra, Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, Louisville Orchestra, Toledo Symphony Orchestra and numerous regional orchestras, often on principal horn. Additionally, he has performed with the Atlantic Classical Orchestra, Cincinnati Ballet Orchestra, Columbus Symphony Orchestra, concert:nova, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Syracuse Symphony Orchestra/Symphony Syracuse, and Albany Symphony Orchestra. Twice he has been a finalist in the Coleman Chamber Music Competition and has performed as a soloist with the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra, the WSU Chamber Orchestra and the Sinfonia Gulf Coast in Destin, Florida.
Thoms is a graduate from the Eastman School of Music (B.M.) and the University of Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music (M.M), where he served as the graduate assistant to the horn studio of Randy Gardner. His primary teachers include W. Peter Kurau, Randy Gardner, Elizabeth Freimuth, Kristy Morrell, Tom Sherwood, and Roger Kaza. He is a member of the International Horn Society, National Association for Music Education, and American Federation of Musicians. He plays on horns built by Darin Sorley and Paxman.