Lili Boulanger's beautiful "NOCTURNE," arranged for trumpet and piano by Chris Coletti. Amazing piano playing by my fellow Ithaca College professor, Vadim Serebryany. Recorded at Ithaca College School of Music Hockett Family Recital Hall.

Nocturne was written in 1911 by Lili Boulanger when she was 18. Born in 1893, Lili was a musical prodigy--both as a composer and multi-instrumentalist (cello, organ, piano, violin, cello and harp, to name a few). She studied composition at Paris Music Academy with her sister, Nadia. Lili was the first female composer to win Prix de Rome prize (for her "Faust et Hélène") but suffered poor health from an early age, cutting what would be a legendary career far too short. She died from lifelong bronchial pneumonia which eventually formed into Crohn’s Disease, taking her life at 25. GET THE SHEET MUSIC