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Lenard was born in Kenora, Ontario, educated at the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto, and lives in Toronto. In addition to fulfilling his roll as organist and choir director here at Trinity Presbyterian Church York Mills, Lenard is also active as a conductor, music educator (both privately and with the University of Toronto), and co-founder/producer of TrypTych Productions, "Canada's Advocates of the Vocal Arts". Lenard enthusiastically shares his passion of music with all with whom he comes in contact.
As a Lyric Tenor, Lenard has sung professionally for the past two and a half decades. Over the course of his distinguished career he has worked with the Canadian Opera Company, Opera in Concert, Vancouver Opera Company, Toronto Operetta Theatre, Summer Opera Lyric Theatre, Opera Anonymous, Opera York, Maritime Concert Opera in Nova Scotia and Opera Mississauga. His many oratorio performances include Bach's St. Matthew and St. John Passion, Weihnachts Oratorium and Magnificat, Britten's St. Nicholas, Dvorak's Stabat Mater, Handel's Messiah and Ode on the Death of Queen Elizabeth, Haydn's Creation and various Masses, Mendelssohn's Lobgesang and Elijah, Mozart's Requiem, Masses and Vespers, Puccini's Messa di Gloria and Vaughan William's Hodie and Serenade to Music.
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