Lenora McCroskey has been
professor of music in the College of Music since 1982. In adition to teaching
organ and harpsichord, she is the assistant director of Early Music Studies,
teaching Baroque performance practice, continuo, and coaching chamber ensembles.
She was been responsible for instigating the on-going the Handel project at
UNT with Graeme Jenkins of the Dallas Opera conducting professionals and pre-professionals
in performances of Handel oratorios. Her keyboard students have consistently
won prizes in regional, national, and international competitions.
McCroskey performs extensively in this country on both organ and harpsichord,
including recitals at conventions of the American Guild of Organists, the
Organ Historical Society, and the Southeast Historical Keyboard Society.
She performs with several historical instrument ensembles in the Dallas/Fort
Worth area, including the Orchestra of New Spain, the Dallas Bach Society,
and the Denton Bach Society. Recent appearances include solo recitals at
the Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas; Methuen Recital Hall, Methuen, MA;
Old West Organ Series, Boston, MA; Piccolo Spoleto in Charleston, SC; and
the University of California, Berkeley. International appearances include
solo organ recitals at l'Eglise du Val-de-Grâce in Paris; continuo
for the ensemble Musica Poetica at the Dresden Festival; and five concerts
with countertenor Ryland Angel as artistic director of Fort Worth Early
Music in Paris, and at the Brantôme Festival in France. She has appeared
as continuoist with the Dallas Opera playing Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione
di Poppea and Handel's Ariodante, and with Opera Colorado in Handel's Giulio
Cesare.
Prior to her appointment at UNT, McCroskey was on the faculties of Stetson
University, the Longy School in Cambridge, MA, and the Eastman School of
Music of the University of Rochester, and was Assistant Organist/Choirmaster
in the Memorial Church at Harvard University. She holds degrees from Stetson,
where her organ study was with Paul Jenkins; Harvard, in musicology; and
the Eastman School of Music, where her organ study was with Russell Saunders.
She studied harpsichord with Gustav Leonhardt and continuo with Veronika
Hampe at the Amsterdam Conservatory in the Netherlands.
She is a Fellow of the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College,
and is active in the Dallas Chapter of the American Guild of Organists,
holding the office of Dean of the Chapter from 1987-1989.