SALIM PAUL ABED a twenty-four year old baritone, graduated form high school in Fort Collins, CO under the apt tutelage of Barbara Lueck.  Mr. Abed began singing in choir in the 7th grade after being banned from the French horn.  His first roles included Charles Dalrympple in Brigadoon, Emile DeBeque in South Pacific, Baptista in The Taming of the Shrew and Don Quixote in The Man of La Mancha.  Before leaving Fort Collins he also premiered in the musical A Portrait of Dorian Gray with the ActOne Theater Company.  On scholarship at the University of Colorado College of Music he sang with the all men’s a capella group In The Buff, played Sarah’s father in Guys and Dolls and, in his first opera played Uncle Yakuside and sang in the chorus of Madama Butterfly.  Accepted to the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, he studies under Leroy Kromm.  At the Conservatory he has played Capitano Rodimarte DiBombarda in Il trionfe dell’onore, Ariodate in Serse and most recently Seneca in L’Incoronazione di Poppea.