Joost van der Linden has worked as a soloist for many eminent conductors, such as Jurjen Hempel, Jane Glover, Jos van Veldhoven, Werner Herbers (Ebony Band Amsterdam), Jed Wentz (Musica Ad Rhenum), Erik van Nevel and Ton Koopman.

His solo engagements outside of his native Holland include Handel’s opera ‘Acis and Galatea’ (at the Gergynog Festival in Wales), ‘the Fairy Queen’ by Purcell (Aldeburgh Festival), Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers (Berlin), Handel’s ‘Alceste’ (Festival de Tréguier et Semaines Musicales de Quimper) and ‘Bastien und Bastienne’ (Festival Opera d’Eté de Dijon). He has also appeared in solo roles in concerts in Holland’s Festival voor Oude Muziek and Germany’s Tage Alter Musik in Herne.

Listen to Die Duivelse Draken, a Dutch translation of the aria “Zu Hilfe” from The Magic Flute by W.A. Mozart.

Listen to Love quickly is pall’d from
Timon of Athens by Henry Purcell.

Four singers and one piano. A palette of five distinctive colours, the permutations are infinite. By turns passionate or gentle, this is an ensemble with a broad rang of contrasts, and with repertoire reaching from Brahms to Bernstein, and from Rossini to Röntgen. SongCircle's five musicians are alternately soloist and orchestra, background and foreground for despite a remarkable blend, one is always aware of their individuality. Visit songcircle.nl. Listen to “Der Tanz” by Schubert.

update July 29, 2008