Playing music is very important to me and
is one of the main inspirations for my art.

Our musical instruments collection consists of: a piano, a silver and an old bone-and-ebony flute, zampoñas, quenas, quenachos, charangos, a guitar, a moceño, a cajon and lots of percussion instruments. From Georgia I brought a chonguri, a doudouk, two panduris and two salamuris and from the USA a travel banjo. Most of the instruments have been collected in the last 12 years, except the flute; I'm playing the flute since I was 9 years old. I've been playing the bass flute in the Netherlands Flute Orchestra for 10 years. The NLFO is an orchestra, conducted by Jorge Caryevschi, with 30 flutes, from piccolo to subcontrabass flute. The orchestra played and plays a wide variety of music, from classical pieces to contemporary compositions. I've also played in the 'Noordenwind Kwintet', a wind quintet in the North of Holland. The last few years I mostly play the traditional music from the Andes (charango, quena, zampoñas).

For more pictures and news about my music, please go to: myspace.com/ammiddel