Pastor and Staff
Reverend Dr. Gay Lee Einstein - Pastor
The Rev. Dr. Gay Lee Einstein has strong roots in Virginia. She was raised in Richmond and attended William and Mary in Williamsburg where she received a BA in French. After college she moved to Northern Virginia and worked for the Smithsonian Institution's Division of Performing Arts. In 1991 Gay Lee received a call to enter the ministry. In 1996 she received her Masters in Divinity from Wesley Theological Seminary and for the next eight years she served as an Associate Pastor at Immanuel Presbyterian Church in McLean, Virginia. During that time she also completed her D.Min. Gay Lee accepted a call to Cove Church in 2005. She has three lovely daughters, Emily, Joy and Paige.
Beth Nevill Evans - Choir Director
Beth Neville Evan received an undergraduate degree in music from Warren Wilson College in Ashville, North Carolina. She is an accomplished pianist and a gifted singer. Beth is the founder of the Ixtatan Foundation, which has established and is presently maintaining and growing a school in San Mateo, Guatemala. Beth is married and has two children.
Linda Blondel - Pianist
Linda grew up in Baltimore and graduated from Peabody Preparatory in piano and music theory. She has a BA from Bennington College in Vermont, having majored in music and dance. She lived in Europe for several years, teaching dance in Greece and accompanying dance classes in Paris.
She has lived in Charlottesville for the past twenty years, where she and her husband raised their two sons. She performs chamber music regularly with many different musicians, both instrumental and vocal; she teaches piano privately; and is pianist at our church and at Thomas Jefferson Memorial Unitarian-Universalist Church in Charlottesville.
Linda is also staff accompanist at UVa, where she has worked with many university student musicians since 1982. Linda participated in the Hampden-Sydney Music Festival in Farmville, VA as an artist fellow in 1998, 1999, and 2000.