Spring Hill Music

Robert Gass originally created Spring Hill Music, named after the spiritual hospice community he co-founded in Massachusetts in the 1960s, as a vehicle to release his own chant recordings and to create distribution channels for exciting new music not fitting into traditional genres. In 1996, a mutual friend introduced Gass to Bill Horwedel, an innovative music entrepreneur who had been leading successful independent record labels in New York City and San Francisco for many years. Horwedel came on board as Spring Hill’s Managing Director, taking over the daily operations of the company while Gass pursued other interests. Subsequently Gass and Horwedel formed a partnership to jointly own the company. Spring Hill then grew from a small-scale, hobbyist label without mainstream distribution to a multi-million dollar company with several Billboard chart-topping records and multiple distribution channels including traditional domestic markets via EMI, one of the five global conglomerates that dominate the worldwide music industry.