Instructor of Music Pamela Stout lives a charmed life, works very hard and sees no contradiction between the two. She coordinates the university’s music program and its four musical ensembles: the St. Edward’s University Chorale, Vocal Jazz Ensemble, Madrigal Singers and Omni Singers. In July 2002 she took 33 students, staff and faculty members from these ensembles to Graz, Austria, to sing in cathedrals in and around the city. Stout has traveled to Austria annually for eight years to teach for the American Institute of Musical Studies, which helps aspiring opera students and instrumentalists launch their careers. In 2003 she led university choir trips to New York and Montreal. The charmed life part? When she’s not “enjoying the faces of our students singing,” Stout lives in the country with her husband and her white Persian, Cat Calloway, who enjoys being walked on a leash.