Seán Doherty (born 1987) is a composer, musicologist and singer from Derry, Northern Ireland.
Doherty was born in Derry, Northern Ireland, where he was educated at St Eugene's primary school and Lumen Christi College.
He read music at St John's College, Cambridge, and was awarded a PhD from Trinity College, Dublin, on submission of a thesis entitled ‘Solfaing: The History of Four-Syllable Solmization to the Present Day’.
Doherty is a lecturer in music at Dublin City University.
His music has been performed by the Kensington Symphony Orchestra (London), the Vanbrugh Quartet, the choir of Merton College, Oxford, the choir of Salisbury Cathedral, the Grant Park Music Festival Chorus (Chicago); the Ulster Orchestra and the Belfast Philharmonic Kids' Choirs, the National Youth Choir of Scotland, the Mornington Singers (Dublin), Laetare Vocal Ensemble (Dublin), the Baroque violinist Claire Duff, the pianist Fiachra Garvey, and the soprano Caroline Melzer.