About us

Our mission
To provide children with fun, educational multimedia products that will stimulate their minds, inspire their imaginations and elicit the musical genius we all carry within.

Who we are
Little Virtuoso is a new venture created by the husband and wife team of Adam Winkler and Tricia Villegas Winkler, and their friend and business partner, Christy Zarlengo. As parents of two young children, Adam and Tricia wanted to recreate in their own home the fun and excitement that their two children experienced in a live music class, and the concept of the "virtual music class" was born. With Christy's experience in early childhood education, and Tricia and Adam's vision, the team set out to inspire the imagination of children while giving them the building blocks for musical aptitude later in life.

Our products
Little Virtuoso DVDs have a carefully developed curriculum and are specifically designed to establish the foundations for music literacy. DVDs that are age appropriate for infants and toddlers take on an informal, experience-centered approach, while DVDs that are targeted towards preschoolers and kindergarteners gradually progress to a more formal, knowledge-centered approach. This transition from the informal to more formal mirrors the natural growth and development of the young child.

Our bios
Christy Zarlengo has a music education degree from the Berklee College of Music and has been teaching music and movement to infants, toddlers and preschoolers for the past five years. When she's not teaching children the basic concepts of music, Christy is a professional jazz pianist and vocalist. Christy will never admit it in public, but she once appeared on Star Search.

Adam Winkler has a degree from Boston College and has studied at Berklee College of Music. Adam conceived the idea of Little Virtuoso on the way home from one of Christy's music classes by saying to Tricia, "These classes are great, somebody should make them into a video."

Tricia Villegas Winkler has an MBA from Simmons College and an undergraduate degree from Boston University. She is a loving mother of two young boys and has spent the last five-plus years of her life attempting to discover if there could ever be a balance between motherhood and full time employment at the corporate office. We all wish her luck.