BrittenвЂ™s A Midsummer NightвЂs Dream, which was the launch of the Benjamin Britten Opera School and also performed this role in the Opera house in Copenhagen in 2004. In November 2001 he sang the role of Oberon in B. Much of Clint van der LindeвЂ™s experience in opera is thanks to the London Handel Festival where he has taken several title roles in George Frideric Handel operas, in Lotario (1999), in Ottone (2000), and in Flavio (2001) and in 2002 as Judas in the Brockes Passion, HWV 48. He has also on two occasions appeared as soloist with the Orchestra of The Age of Enlightenment singing J.S. Bach's music and has worked as soloist on both the St Matthew Passion ( BWV 244) and St John Passion ( BWV 245) under the direction of Peter Schreier. He sang alto in a SATB group called Close Harmony.Д¬lint van der Linde has sung much of J.S. MozartвЂ™s Requiem), Peter Schreier, Nicholas Kraemer, Robert King, Stephen Cleobury, Jan Willem de Vriend, Paul Dombrecht and Gerard Korsten. Some under the direction of Roger Norrington (with W.A. Some of which are: the Orchestra of The Age of Enlightenment, The Hanover Band, The Academy of Ancient Music, King's College Cambridge, The KingвЂ™s Consort, London Handel Orchestra, Il Fondamento, Le Musiche Nove and Combattimento Consort Amsterdam. In these fields has worked as soloist under and along side many of the leading groups and artists worldwide. However he has an extensive experience in Baroque music and has worked a fair deal on contempory music. Later he studied with Ashley Stafford.Д¬lint van der Linde has much interest in a wide range of styles and genres of singing. During this period he had master-classes with Roger Vignoles, Sarah Walker, Michael Chance and James Bowman. After completing his BMus in 2001 he was offered a Martin Harris Scholarship to complete his Post Graduate diploma Course. In 1998 he won the first prize in the Kathleen Ferrier Bursary for Young Singers. During this year he was offered a Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother Scholarship to study for a four year a BMus degree course at the RCM. Soon after he had started a BMus degree at the University of Pretoria in 1996, during which he was offered an International Scholarship to spend a year at Eton College. As a boy soprano he performed with most of the major orchestras in South Africa (including the Transvaal Philharmonic Orchestra) and went on to win the singing category of the ATKV competition. The South-African counter tenor (and former boy-soprano), Clint van der Linde, started singing in 1988 as a boy soprano in the Drakensberg Boys' Choir School in South Africa (Director: Christian Ashley-Botha). Clint van der Linde (Boy Soprano, Counter-tenor)

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