Bob Lord (musician)
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| Born | 1976 Andover, Massachusetts, U.S. | ||||
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| Years active | 1989–present | ||||
| Labels | PARMA Recordings, Comet Records, Red Fez Records, Big Balloon Records | ||||
| Award | Musical America "30 Professionals of the Year" (2015) | ||||
| Website | boblordmusic.com | ||||
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Bob Lord (born 1976) is an American music producer, composer, bassist, and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of PARMA Recordings, a contemporary classical music production house and parent company to label imprints Big Round Records, Navona Records, Ravello Records, MMC Recordings, Ansonica Records, Capstone Records, Albany Records and more recently MSR Classics.
A prolific figure in the recording industry, Lord has more than 1,000 production and recording credits to his name. He has served as Executive Producer for three Grammy Award-winning albums, including the 2023 and 2025 winners for Best Choral Performance. Through the Navona label, he has several production credits on earlier albums, such as The Arc in the Sky, a 2020 Grammy-nomination.
Outside of his work with PARMA, Lord serves as the President of the Zagreb Festival Orchestra, Croatia. More locally, he has been a member of the Advisory Board of the Portsmouth Symphony Orchestra since 2013.
He is also notable for being the bassist/composer of the experimental rock trio Dreadnaught, music director for the NHPR/Music Hall series Writers on a New England Stage, and in-studio producer of Grammy-winning clarinetist Richard Stoltzman.
He has more than 150 credits as a producer, executive producer, performer, arranger, label manager, and composer, and with Pete Townshend of The Who served as co-producer for the double-album release by Lawrence Ball, Method Music.