ABOUT

Danny Fratina is a composer, arranger, transcriptionist, trumpet player, and clinician. Since graduating from the Berklee College of Music, he has been regularly writing and arranging music for big bands and orchestras, with recent work for the Boston Pops, the Kennedy Center, the Plymouth Symphony, the Cape Cod Symphony, Tufts University, Longy School of Music, the United Nations in Boston, the Beantown Swing Orchestra, John Stevens, and independent bands across the U.S., Canada, England, France, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, Russia, Australia, and New Zealand. He has contributed music to Harvard University’s Natural History of Song research project, the memorial service for longtime Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, and U.S. military big bands abroad. Along with producing a number of albums by various artists, he has also scored the DMA Echo Awards Ceremony and several commercials. Danny’s big band music was among the first to be played in schools in Cuba after changes in U.S./Cuban policy in early 2015. He was a finalist in the ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Awards four times, and his book of original music for two trumpets is used by the Berklee College of Music brass department. He earned his Masters’s degree in Composition from Istanbul Technical University and from 2019-2022 was on faculty at Istanbul University State Conservatory teaching jazz composition. His original concert work can be found here.