Lenora McCroskey
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 Dr. Lenora McCroskey
 Lenora McCroskey has been professor of music in the College of Music since 1982. In addition to teaching organ and harpsichord, she is the assistant director of Early Music Studies, teaching Baroque performance practices, continuo, and coaching chamber ensembles.  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 ensembles in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, including Fort Worth Early Music, 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; 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 twice as continuoist with the Dallas Opera playing Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea and Handel's Ariodante. 

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. She concertizes under the auspices of WindWerk Artists.