“Now listen to the reed as it is grieving,” sang Hossein Omoumi, sitting cross-legged on a carpet at Meany Hall, dressed in white, loose-fitting pants and shirt. “Since they cut me from the bed of ...

I only brought a flute with me to Israel. I got serious on the ney here.” Although at the time of our chat, Shahsar said the Confederation House show repertoire was yet to be finalized, fans of Middle ...

Franco-Syrian flute and ney player Naïssam Jalal is as eclectic as she is talented. Equally at ease flowing with Palestinian rapper Osloob as part of sextet Al Akhareen as surrounding her music with ...

Amid the bombed-out wreckage of a site that once hosted dozens of Mosul’s traditional maqam players, Iraqi musician Saad Rajab Bacha plays his ney flute to remember the city’s glorious days before it ...

Karahan is a Turkish avant-garde performance artist and an accomplished Neyzen, player of a Turkish traditional Ney flute. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First ...

A master of playing ney, an end-blown flute that figures prominently in Persian, Turkish, and Arabic music, he died at the age of 66, Mehr reported. Andalibi first learned to play ney by himself, and ...