2025 Judges - Gold Coast
MUSICALITY CATEGORY
An accomplished composer, arranger and choral director Alex Morris is in demand around the
world as a vocal coach with regular appearance on faculty at Harmony University and is also a
certified as a Musicality Judge with the Barbershop Harmony Society. Alex is the former Music
Director of Vocal Evolution, leading them to three Barbershop Harmony Australia gold medals.
In 2022 Alex was inducted into the Barbershop Harmony Australia Hall of Fame. He has a
passion for education and loves nothing more than to share the joy of music.
Ian Mulholland has been a BHA member for 37 years and has arranged over fifty barbershop songs. He is a four-time BHA national quartet gold medallist, five-time chorus gold medallist, and has won numerous silver and bronze medals at the national level. Ian is also a Pan Pac quartet and chorus gold medallist and has represented BHA at the International Contest many times. He helped form the Australasian Guild of Barbershop Judges (AGBJ) and has been a qualified AGBJ Musicality Judge for 20 years. He served as BHA President for four years and was made a BHA Life Member and Hall of Fame Legend in 2009.
David Brooks
PERFORMANCE CATEGORY
Mike Kelly
Charlotte Murray
SINGING CATEGORY
Jay Butterfield
Henrietta Hunkin-Tagaloa
ADMINISTRATION CATEGORY
Aaron Hewitt has over 20 years’ experience in Sports and Event administration including 12 years as President of Special Olympics WA, before becoming involved with the Barbershop artform. Aaron supported in the pit at the BHA Nationals in 2015 and Pan Pacs in 2017, certifying as an ADM judge for AGBJ in the same year. Since certifying, Aaron has been one of the ADM judges for the 2023 Pan Pacs, 2022 and 2018 Nationals as well as several regional contests.
Linda Vinall was first introduced to Barbershop in 2008 in a mixed quartet, singing with her husband.
Expanding her involvement, she became a founding member of a Sweet Adeline Chorus in Adelaide. Linda has competed in quartets and chorus contests nearly every year since so has the perspective of contestant as well as sitting in the pit. She served as the Events Coordinator for Sweet Adeline’s Australia (21-23)
She currently is singing with Gospo Collective which completed a major season in the 2024 Adelaide Fringe and will be performing in their first interstate tour “A Night at the Barracks” in Sydney in September.
Linda first qualified as a Contest Administrator Judge in 2011. She continues in the role of category lead.
Kevin Day
MUSICALITY CATEGORY
An accomplished composer, arranger and choral director Alex Morris is in demand around the
world as a vocal coach with regular appearance on faculty at Harmony University and is also a
certified as a Musicality Judge with the Barbershop Harmony Society. Alex is the former Music
Director of Vocal Evolution, leading them to three Barbershop Harmony Australia gold medals.
In 2022 Alex was inducted into the Barbershop Harmony Australia Hall of Fame. He has a
passion for education and loves nothing more than to share the joy of music.
Ian Mulholland has been a BHA member for 37 years and has arranged over fifty barbershop songs. He is a four-time BHA national quartet gold medallist, five-time chorus gold medallist, and has won numerous silver and bronze medals at the national level. Ian is also a Pan Pac quartet and chorus gold medallist and has represented BHA at the International Contest many times. He helped form the Australasian Guild of Barbershop Judges (AGBJ) and has been a qualified AGBJ Musicality Judge for 20 years. He served as BHA President for four years and was made a BHA Life Member and Hall of Fame Legend in 2009.
David Brooks
PERFORMANCE CATEGORY
Mike Kelly
Charlotte Murray
SINGING CATEGORY
Jay Butterfield
Henrietta Hunkin-Tagaloa
ADMINISTRATION CATEGORY
Aaron Hewitt has over 20 years’ experience in Sports and Event administration including 12 years as President of Special Olympics WA, before becoming involved with the Barbershop artform. Aaron supported in the pit at the BHA Nationals in 2015 and Pan Pacs in 2017, certifying as an ADM judge for AGBJ in the same year. Since certifying, Aaron has been one of the ADM judges for the 2023 Pan Pacs, 2022 and 2018 Nationals as well as several regional contests.
Linda Vinall was first introduced to Barbershop in 2008 in a mixed quartet, singing with her husband.
Expanding her involvement, she became a founding member of a Sweet Adeline Chorus in Adelaide. Linda has competed in quartets and chorus contests nearly every year since so has the perspective of contestant as well as sitting in the pit. She served as the Events Coordinator for Sweet Adeline’s Australia (21-23)
She currently is singing with Gospo Collective which completed a major season in the 2024 Adelaide Fringe and will be performing in their first interstate tour “A Night at the Barracks” in Sydney in September.
Linda first qualified as a Contest Administrator Judge in 2011. She continues in the role of category lead.
Kevin Day
