Tehran, Iran will hold a public funeral for veteran musician Hassan Nahid who died on Friday at 79 because of age complications, according to a statement by Iran’s Music House.
The Sunday statement said the funeral for Nahid, a prominent Iranian ney player, will be held on Monday morning in Tehran’s Vahdat Hall hours before his burial ceremony at Behesht Zahra cemetery in south of Tehran.
Nahid started playing ney, a kind of flute made from reed that is often used in Iranian traditional music, when he was 10.
This Iranian musician then expanded his professional skills in courses he took with great masters of Iranian music, including tombak virtuoso Hossein Tehrani and ney player Hassan Kasaei.
Over the years, Nahid performed in top ensembles and orchestras involving famous vocalists like Hossein Qavami, Abdolvahab Shahidi and Mohammadreza Shajarian.
In a message issued on Sunday, Iranian Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Mohammad Mehdi Esmaili offered his condolences on the death of the veteran musician.
Source: Islamic Republic News Agency – IRNA
