Bryan Clark is a Texas musician, producer, and educator whose career spans multiple genres, continents, and disciplines. He launched his professional journey opening for jazz guitar legend Larry Carlton and has since built an extensive career as a session musician, composer, sound designer, and producer, working in Los Angeles, Austin, and Nashville.

A graduate of USC (BM, DMA) and UT Austin (MM), Bryan’s work extends beyond performance—he collaborates with modern dance troupes, spoken word artists, and filmmakers, crafting scores, soundscapes, and cutting-edge productions. His music has been featured on FOX, ESPN, VH1, Lifetime, WB, the History Channel, and the Food Network.

Bryan has worked alongside an eclectic mix of artists, including Bonnie Raitt, Lisa Loeb, Larry Carlton, Scott Henderson, Neal McCoy, Phil Keaggy, Jerry Donohue, Ma Xiaohui, Upchurch, and Kelsea Ballerini. As the founder of Rainfeather Records, a Nashville-based independent label, Bryan continues to champion innovative and cross-cultural projects. His most recent release, Wire and Wood, is a genre-blending collaboration with world-renowned Erhu virtuoso Ma Xiaohui. Their televised Chinese New Year performance in Shanghai reached an estimated 900 million viewers across Euro-Asia, making Bryan the first Western artist to be inducted into the Chinese Cultural Heritage Guild.

His upcoming Madrigals for Mongrels, is set for multiple releases in mid-2025. His bluegrass band, Honeywagon, has released five albums, selling over 2 million copies and securing an 18-month run on Billboard’s Bluegrass Top 10 chart (peaking at #3).

Bryan was an in-house producer at the legendary Blackbird Studio in Nashville for eight and a half years and a faculty member at The Blackbird Academy and the University of New Haven, where he taught audio production, engineering, and publishing. He also served on faculty at Belmont University and Vanderbilt University, teaching electroacoustic composition, sound design, jazz guitar, contemporary music production, and the history of American song.

As Co-Founder of Modern Music Masters, Bryan leads an industry-leading online music education platform featuring multiple Grammy-winning faculty such as Jerry Douglas, Paul Franklin, and Viktor Krauss.

Bryan is a featured monthly columnist for Premier Guitar Magazine (Recording Dojo), where he shares insights on recording, production, and musicianship.

His work has been spotlighted in Guitar Player, Flatpicking Guitar, Vintage Guitar, Billboard, and Mix Magazine.

Professional Affiliations:

NARAS/Grammy

Leadership Music

AES (Audio Engineering Society)

IBMA (International Bluegrass Music Association)