Dr. Linda E. Cockey
 Linda Cockey, Professor of Music, teaches piano, music history,
form and analysis and wellness in performance. Her education
background includes a DMA from The Catholic University of
America in piano pedagogy, a MM degree from Temple University in
music theory and a BA degree from Lebanon Valley College in
piano performance. She studied piano with William Fairlamb,
Susan Starr, Bela Nagy, Barbara English Maris and Thomas
Mastroianni.
Linda Cockey is known nationally for her research on musician
wellness and her annotated bibliography on the subject has been
published annually in the American Music Teacher journal for
over twenty-five years and is now an on-line database on The
Music Teacher’s National Association’s website. She is a
wellness committee member for the National Keyboard Pedagogy
Conference where she has presented her research. She has also
done presentations for the Music Teachers National Association
(MTNA), The Maryland State Music Teachers Association and the
Hoff-Barthelson Music School in Scarsdale, New York. In
2013-2015, Cockey will be a member of the editorial board for
MTNA’s ejournal. A partial bibliography focusing on wellness
resources for piano has been included in Famous Pianist’s and
Their Technique by Reginald Gerig published in 2006 by Indiana
University Press.
She served as chair of the Music department at Salisbury
University from 2003-2009 and under her guidance, the music
program received accreditation from the National Association of
Schools in Music for the first time. Under her leadership the
department more than doubled in student and faculty growth,
launched the first music technology track in the state of
Maryland, obtained all new university owned pianos and went
through two NASM accreditations. In 2012, she received the
Fulton School of Liberal Arts Annual Department Chair’s Award
for excellent service. In recent years, she has become an
accreditation evaluator for the National Association of Schools
in Music. She is also on the Academic Leadership and
Administration Committee for the College Music Society (CMS) and
has presented at the National Association of Schools in Music
(NASM) on Crisis Management. In 2010 she was invited to write
about leadership and her article “A Chair’s Tool Box” was
published in CMS’s Newsletter.
Fulton Hall (FH) 242
Office: (410) 543-6385
Email:
lecockey@salisbury.edu
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