Hamed Sadeghi Brings New Album Comfortable to Sydney's City Recital Hall
Hamed Sadeghi has announced the premiere of his new album Comfortable at Sydney's City Recital Hall on 5 September, performed with an octet of collaborators drawn from Australia’s most vital improvised and contemporary music scenes.
Venue: City Recital Hall
Address: 2 Angle Place, Sydney NSW 2000
Date: 5 Sptember 2026
Time: 8:00 pm
Ticket: $55-$85
Buy / Ticket: https://www.cityrecitalhall.com/whats-on/events/comfortable-hamed-sadeghi
Web: https://www.cityrecitalhall.com/whats-on/events/comfortable-hamed-sadeghi
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Address: 2 Angle Place, Sydney NSW 2000
Date: 5 Sptember 2026
Time: 8:00 pm
Ticket: $55-$85
Buy / Ticket: https://www.cityrecitalhall.com/whats-on/events/comfortable-hamed-sadeghi
Web: https://www.cityrecitalhall.com/whats-on/events/comfortable-hamed-sadeghi
: https://www.instagram.com/hamedsadeghi_tar_
Request Image Contact: hamed@deev.au
Image Copyright / CDN: Credit: Georgia Griffiths
If you caught Sadeghi at the Sydney Festival, the Melbourne, Perth or Brisbane Jazz Festivals, or at the Sydney Opera House, this is your next chance to experience his work live.
Comfortable is the latest project from the multi-award-winning composer and tar virtuoso, known for forging a singular voice from Persian classical tradition and the restless vocabulary of contemporary chamber improvisation. The album brings together some of Australia's most distinguished musicians, including Lloyd Swanton (The Necks), Sandy Evans and Paul Cutlan, alongside artists Tom and Michael Avgenicos, and leading voices from Persian and Middle Eastern traditions includingSohrab Kolahdooz and Adem Yilmaz.
This isn't the first time these musicians have come together. Their previous collaboration in 2024, Empty Voices, earned Sadeghi’s composition widespread international recognition and brought the ensemble to major stages.
Sadeghi's compositions have always moved fluidly between Persian classical tradition and the broader worlds of Western classical and contemporary music, drawing on both to build something distinctly his own. The work imagines a kind of cosmopolitan dialogue, where traditions meet not to compromise but to create new meaning together.
Comfortable, Sadeghi says, "reflects a deep connection between Persian and contemporary jazz music but refuses to be known as only one of them. The result is a sound that feels both grounded in tradition and expansively modern, exploring the harmony between structure and freedom, comfort and paradox."
"I refuse to categorise my music under Eurocentric terms like world music and given the genre-blurring work we see every day in the Australian music scene, I know I'm not alone in that."
The album premieres in Sydney on 5 September, with further dates across Australia and internationally through 2026 and 2027.
Comfortable is the latest project from the multi-award-winning composer and tar virtuoso, known for forging a singular voice from Persian classical tradition and the restless vocabulary of contemporary chamber improvisation. The album brings together some of Australia's most distinguished musicians, including Lloyd Swanton (The Necks), Sandy Evans and Paul Cutlan, alongside artists Tom and Michael Avgenicos, and leading voices from Persian and Middle Eastern traditions includingSohrab Kolahdooz and Adem Yilmaz.
This isn't the first time these musicians have come together. Their previous collaboration in 2024, Empty Voices, earned Sadeghi’s composition widespread international recognition and brought the ensemble to major stages.
Sadeghi's compositions have always moved fluidly between Persian classical tradition and the broader worlds of Western classical and contemporary music, drawing on both to build something distinctly his own. The work imagines a kind of cosmopolitan dialogue, where traditions meet not to compromise but to create new meaning together.
Comfortable, Sadeghi says, "reflects a deep connection between Persian and contemporary jazz music but refuses to be known as only one of them. The result is a sound that feels both grounded in tradition and expansively modern, exploring the harmony between structure and freedom, comfort and paradox."
"I refuse to categorise my music under Eurocentric terms like world music and given the genre-blurring work we see every day in the Australian music scene, I know I'm not alone in that."
The album premieres in Sydney on 5 September, with further dates across Australia and internationally through 2026 and 2027.