Petra Haller and Meg Morley Duo at St Paul's Church Birmingham 2022
"Petra Haller and Meg Morley" explore rhythm, time, space, and most engagingly , how top tier artists communicate in real time. Haller and `Morley present a completely improvised concert, playing off one another to create and experience of both free-wheeling athleticism and highly disciplined technique drawing from their combined experience and training in jazz, classical styles and free improvisation.
“Petra Haller is unique as an improvising tap dancer – a worthy successor to Will Gaines. ”
— oliver weindling, vortex jazz club, babel label
Haller is a tap dancer based in London. She has studied at Escola Luthier in Barcelona, Europe’s only full-time tap dance school, and at workshops under Jason Samuels Smith, Derick Grant and Andrew Nemr. These mentors taught her the dance style and introduced her to it’s African-American roots — the cultural foundation for all jazz music. She is sucessfully establishing herself in the jazz and improvised music scene and she became the first tap dancer ever named in Jazz Wise Magazine’s “Rising Jazz Artists : Who to look out for in 2020”
Classically trained from the age of two, Melbourne-born, London-based musician Meg Morley was awarded Distinctions by the Australian Music Examination Board for its Associate and Licentiate diplomas in piano. She completed a Masters of Music in classical performance, and a Postgraduate Certificate in composition. She studied Jazz improvisation at the Victorian College of the Arts.
