Lenora McCroskey has been professor of music in the College of Music at the University of North Texas since 1982. In addition to teaching organ and harpsichord, she is the assistant director of Early Music Studies, teaching Baroque performance practice, 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 historical instrument ensembles in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, and is a frequent continuoist with Fort Worth Early Music, Dallas Opera, and other companies.

McCroskey has also been 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.