Little Prelude grew out of years of introducing my childcare minded musician friends to families who needed care and slowly creating lifelong relationships.
I am a professional musician and a lifelong caregiver. For years, I connected musician friends with babysitting jobs across New York City. It was never a business, just a favor between trusted friends and loving families. It was just something I was good at: knowing which artist would suit which family.
Again and again, something remarkable happened. Those placements were never a one and done. Families found caregivers they loved and trusted completely. Musicians found work that supported their artistic careers instead of competing with them. Children gained mentors who brought music, love and joy into their ordinary weekday afternoons.
The response was always the same: “You should start your own agency.”
Little Prelude grew from those relationships and from seeing firsthand how naturally music and childcare belong together.
There are many childcare agencies. There are many music schools. I wanted to create both.
More than ever, families today want consistency, and children thrive when trusted relationships stay stable. When the person who picks your child up from school is also a trained musician, music stops being one more activity on the calendar.
We are not trying to become the largest childcare agency in New York. We are trying to become the most trusted.
I am a musician, caregiver, creator, and connector. For as long as I can remember, my life has been shaped by two passions: music and child care.
Music taught me discipline, vulnerability, creativity, and excellence. Childcare taught me patience, curiosity, empathy, and the power of positive influence. Together, they revealed something I believe deeply: people flourish when they are seen, supported, and inspired.
I completed my first babysitting certification through the Red Cross at eleven years old. I have spent more than a decade in serious musical study and performance. This company is the natural extension of both and of every family and artist I have ever had the joy of bringing together.
Arts programs keep disappearing, and classical music receives less attention every year. At the same time, extraordinarily trained musicians are working jobs that have nothing to do with their craft simply to make rent. I don’t think those are two separate problems. I think they are one problem, and it has an answer.
If the children we care for grow into adults who go to concerts, take lessons, and pass that love on to their own children, I will consider this work a success. That is the whole ambition, really, understanding it is not a small one.
Human connection sits at the center of everything. Children, families, and artists all thrive through trust, so we build for relationships, not transactions.
Children deserve to be treated as whole people with real thoughts and real potential. Caregivers deserve appreciation. Artists deserve opportunity and honest pay.
We cultivate wonder; in the children we care for and in ourselves. The world needs more people who are genuinely excited to learn, grow, and change.
We anticipate needs before they are spoken. Presence means taking responsibility for helping other people succeed, quietly and without being asked.
We are not motivated by scale or by noise. We are motivated by meaningful work done exceptionally well, consistently, over a long period of time.
Founding families are the priority in our matching process, and Taylor is personally involved in every introduction.
