AARON DIPIAZZA, baritone, studies at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music with Professor Herman leRoux. At the Conservatory, he has sung Aeneas in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas with the Conservatory Baroque Orchestra, and Schlemiel in Tales of Hoffman. In 2001 Arron joined the International Opera Academy of Rome to sing Papageno in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte. Away from the opera stage, Aaron has give nseveral recitals of German Lieder and American song performing works by Schumman, Mahler, Ives and Barber. In 2002 he travelled to England to sing in a Gala event celebrating the Queen Mother's birthday.