Hassan Kesaei was born in 1928 in Isfahan (the art capital of Iran). He was four years old when he entered the mysterious world of music by singing. At the age of twelve, he started playing Ney (Iranian reed) and learned the techniques of playing it with Mehdi Navaei. Later, he learned the basics of music and playing Setar from Abol Hassan Saba. Hassan was fifteen years old when he performed his first program on Isfahan Radio. With his continuous efforts and innate genius, he was able to completely transform the playing of Ney -this simple instrument- and gave it an unimaginable capacity. In 1950, he took Ney to the orchestra and gave it a high place among other Iranian and non-Iranian instruments. Hassan Kesaei's compositions and performances are among the most outstanding songs and melodies of Iranian music, and without a doubt, he should be considered the most outstanding Ney player in the contemporary world. The publication of some of his performances by UNESCO gave him world fame. But due to the restrictions of Iran's government after the 1979 Islamic revolution, he was forced into silence in the golden years of his life and chose seclusion. He, whose art had a spiritual and popular status, broke his heavy silence from 1999 and created valuable and lasting works for his music lovers. Hassan Kesaei died on June 14, 2012, and his body was buried in Takht-e Foolad in Isfahan.