Danny Fratina is a Ph.D. student in Composition and Music Theory. His current work involves transcription-as-composition, improvisation, and subjective notation. Danny holds a BM in Jazz Composition from the Berklee College of Music, and received his MA in Composition from the Istanbul Technical University Centre for Advanced Studies in Music (MIAM) in Istanbul, Turkey where his thesis detailed social trends in jazz harmony and arranging in 1949 Brooklyn, NY. From 2019 to 2022 he was Lecturer of Jazz Composition at the Istanbul University State Conservatory.