Pamela Gaston, Associate Professor of Voice, has appeared extensively in German and Austrian opera houses and with the Des Moines Metro Opera, St. Louis Opera Theater, Opera Memphis, the Kansas City Symphony, the St. Louis Symphony, and South Texas Symphony in the States. She was a national finalist in the Metropolitan Opera Council's auditions, as well as a national finalist in the National Opera Association Auditions. While in New York she received an educational grant from the Met Council to study with Daniel Ferro at the Juilliard School of Music. The State Department and the Pacific Cultural Foundation sponsored Dr. Gaston in a recital tour of Taiwan. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Dr. Gaston was on faculty of the Tennessee Governor's School for the Arts. Her students have appeared with the Chicago Lyric Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, Nashville Opera, San Jose Opera, New Orleans Opera, and Opera Memphis.