Adrian Gimpel
Adrian has been part of the Australian barbershop scene since 1997, when he began singing in a quartet and soon after joined the chorus Men In Harmony.
In 2002 he helped found Vocal Evolution, serving as its first President and later leading membership and marketing. During his time with the chorus, they won four national Barbershop Harmony Australia (BHA) gold medals.
He is a current member of the BHA Western Region Council and has also held the role of Chair, along with two other non-consecutive terms as a council member since 2010.
Adrian was a certified Presentation Judge with the Australasian Guild of Barbershop Judges for ten years, beginning when the organisation was founded in 2004. He later returned to Men In Harmony as Musical Director from 2015 to 2018.
As a quartet singer, he has won four BHA national male quartet gold medals, three with Alliance (inducted into the BHA Hall of Fame in 2023) and one with TLA, as well as Pan Pacific and BHA mixed quartet gold medals with Twice On Sunday. He has also represented Australia in six Barbershop Harmony Society International contests with both quartets and choruses.
Adrian is currently a member of Boulevard Harmony, winners of the 2022 and 2024 BHA Open Chorus gold medals, and performed with The Baden Street Singers when they claimed the 2023 BHA Open Chorus title.
Adrian became Musical Director of Indian Blue Chorus (IBC) in June 2023. Since then he has collaborated with the Leadership Team to review and update the chorus’ mission, vision and values, and with the Music Team to more clearly define musical standards. This has included revising the audition process and an overhaul of the new member onboarding process. These initiatives have served as a base from which to help current and future members understand IBC's identity and purpose, with the specific aim of strengthening recruitment and retention efforts.
Musically, Adrian has guided IBC through two Sweet Adelines International regional contests, held in Brisbane and Perth. He has also worked to consolidate and expanded the chorus's repertoire, adding new songs and refining existing ones so that every piece on the list can be performed confidently by the entire group. This ensures the chorus is ready for a wide range of engagements, from full-length concerts and seasonal Christmas programs to community events of all sizes.
This ongoing development reached a milestone in late 2025 with the chorus’s first fully staged theatrical production, Absolute Pantomonium!, which Adrian produced and directed, and which was well received.
Adrian looks forward to helping IBC build on this foundation, continuing to sing, learn, and perform in ways that bring satisfaction to its members while sharing the joy of a cappella barbershop harmony with the wider community.
