Bryan Doherty is a Chicago-based composer, songwriter, bassist, and producer who contributes his efforts to a multitude of varied projects.

His music has been featured in an array of spheres from American Songwriter to the popular video game Watch Dogs. Doherty has composed three operas, a ballet, a string quartet, various vocal and symphonic music, and a piano suite. His Chamber Symphony in D Minor received its world premiere in Chicago in 2024. In 2025 he was commissioned to write a solo cantata for the Brazos Valley Symphony Orchestra, setting text by Marianne Moore.

As a bassist, Bryan has performed all over the world while also being an in-demand studio musician appearing on albums by Marquis Hill, Stu Mindeman, and Matt Gold, to name a few. He is also the founder of Hood Smoke which the Chicago Sun-Times called a "must-see act!”, a group that released numerous albums of Doherty’s original music and toured America. 

Doherty attended Milwaukee High School of the Arts and Chicago College of Performing Arts.