Get to Know Us

Catherine Chapin serves as Parish Administrator at St. Paul’s. Catherine is a native of Athens, Georgia but has called Alexandria home since 2015. She is a graduate of Georgia Southern University, where she earned a Bachelor’s in Communications. Outside the office, you’ll often find her enjoying quality time on her front porch with her husband Fritz, their dog Dapper Dan, and a great book.

June Geoffray is the Director of the Lazarus Ministry, St. Paul’s community emergency assistance program.

Maria Halloran is the Director of Stewardship and Communications at St. Paul’s. This role is responsible for cultivating and growing the resources of St. Paul’s as well as communicating and promoting St. Paul’s mission and ministries to its members and to the community. Maria is a graduate of the University of Virginia with a BA in English. She and her husband, Tim, live in Alexandria with their three children; Will, Maisie, and Alice.

A church musician since high school, Eric is thrilled to join the staff at St. Paul’s. As a pianist, he appears regularly with the National Symphony Orchestra and performs as principal pianist with the Washington Ballet Orchestra. He has been engaged by Alexandria Choral Society, Washington Performing Arts, Glimmerglass Festival, Minnesota Opera, Fort Worth Opera, and Palm Beach Opera, and has further experience as an educator working at the Seagle Music Colony and the Young Artists Training Programme at the New National Theatre in Tokyo. He is continuing in his fifth year as the pianist for Beth El Hebrew Congregation in Alexandria. Also an arts administrator, Eric comes to St. Paul’s after nearly six years as the General Manager and Assistant Executive Director of the American Youth Philharmonic Orchestras. Eric and his wife, Elizabeth, have attended St. Paul’s for nearly ten years; they were married and have had all three of their children baptized here. He looks forward to having an active role in refining the musical character of three distinct services at St. Paul’s while welcoming any musician that would like to participate.

Parker Wheeler serves as the Minister for Children, Youth, and Families at St. Paul’s. She relocated to Alexandria from College Station, Texas where she recently graduated from Texas A&M University with a BA in Ethics, Society, and Law. While in College Station, Parker drew upon her experiences working as a nanny and began working in children and youth ministry at St. Thomas Episcopal Church. At. St. Thomas, Parker led the children’s program, for preschoolers through 4th graders, on Wednesday nights and worked in the nursery on Sunday mornings. Reflecting on her work with young people, she says, “the perspective I share is only half of the perspective they teach me.”

Adriano Spampanato is a French-Italian musician and Fulbright Scholar currently enrolled as a pianist/coach/assistant conductor in the Cafritz Young Artists program at Washington National Opera. Eager to explore every style, his repertoire covers music from the 16^th century to the present day. He pursued his studies at Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, earning four Bachelor’s degrees (in piano, organ, choreographic accompanying, and musicology) and a Master’s degree with academic honors in collaborative piano. As an organist, harpsichordist, and improviser with a strong interest in Baroque music, Adriano is regularly called to perform this repertoire. He won the Special Prize of the Art Assembly/Tavricheskaya Chapel for the best rendition of baroque music at Tariverdiev’s Organ Competition and will return to Russia for a solo recital in St. Petersburg. As an art song team, he and soprano Axelle Fanyo won the 4^th Prize and the Special Prize for Best Interpretation of a Canadian Song at Récital-Concours international de mélodies françaises, Montréal. They made a recording of Duparc’s songs which is available on audio streaming platforms, and are active recitalists. Adriano is the former pianist-organist of Christ Church United Methodist, Park Ave, NYC. He has worked as an assistant conductor and vocal/dialect coach at Opera North (Lebanon, NH) and was a Festival Artist at Opera Saratoga (NY). He recently conducted Lucio Silla (Mozart) and Silla (Handel) with Chicago Summer Opera and will continue to develop his career as a conductor.