About Rick Hamouris

Rick Hamouris

Rick Hamouris (composer, musician, singer, arranger, and engineer) plays a dozen or so electronic and acoustic instruments. He studied computer enhanced synthesis at the intensive interdisciplinary C.S.U. Summer Arts Program at Cal Poly with Morton Subotnick, Suzanne Ciani and Bobby McFerrin.  He has published two albums of original music, scored two films, performed with the San Francisco Taiko Dojo, and toured with numerous bands.

His song We are a Circle is used by Earth-centric groups throughout the world, and has been been published by the Findhorn Press, among others. The latest publication in which this song appears is Songs For Earthlings by Julie Forest Middleton and published by Emerald Earth Publishing. You can read his blog post about We are a Circle here on Pagan Song (link below).

Rick has collaborated on ritual theatre and musical performance projects, most notably EVOLUTION!, a multimedia rock opera and traveling show by W. Hunter Roberts. He served as Music Director for four years with the Creative Youth Theatre in Phoenix, Arizona, and was a 2007 ariZoni award nominee for his lighting and sound design. Rick was the Technical Director for Theatre Artists Studio in Scottsdale for 7 years. 

You can support Rick’s current musical projects by becoming one of his Patreon subscribers for $3.00 or more a month.

Rick’s blog posts:

Bringing In the May

Alane was kind enough to ask me to be a guest writer, once again, for these blogs. In her request she wanted to know how my Beltane song Bringing in the May came about. I answered that I’d like to know that TOO and grinned. It’s is on my album...
magical circle at sunrise

We Are a Circle

The circle here at Pagan Song is expanding! From now on, we’ll regularly have posts from Guest Bloggers–pagan musicians who will share their unique perspectives on pagan music and magic. Our guest this week is Rick Hamouris, talking about his song We Are a Circle, one of the best loved...