2025 Judges
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
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
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
